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pkcs8

crates.io · v0.11.0 · Apache-2.0 OR MIT

Pure Rust implementation of Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) #8: Private-Key Information Syntax Specification (RFC 5208), with additional support for PKCS#8v2 asymmetric key packages (RFC 5958)

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Install

cargo add pkcs8

Adoption

Downloads (90 days)
115.1M
Observeddownloads / 90 days
Popularity
Top 10% on crates.io
Derived97th percentile within crates.io
Dependents
361
Observedpackages that depend on it
All-time downloads
462.6M
Observedsince first publish
Maintenance
0.54
DerivedRelease cadence and recency, 0 to 1
Releases per year
8.7
51 versions over its life

Growth by period

Derived by Crest of Tech from two observations of crates.io’s own figure, a period apart. Nothing is stored or estimated: without an observation near the period’s start, the period is still collecting.

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Adoption history

Adoption historydownloads / 90 days

Observations in this range began OCT 5, 2026. The chart appears after 7 observations; 2 so far. Collecting history.

Table of observations (13)
Daydownloads / 90 daysDependents
OCT 24, 2026115,053,784361
OCT 5, 2026101,266,798Not observed
OCT 4, 2026Not observedNot observed
OCT 3, 2026Not observedNot observed
OCT 2, 2026Not observedNot observed
OCT 1, 2026Not observedNot observed
SEP 30, 2026Not observedNot observed
SEP 29, 2026Not observedNot observed
SEP 28, 2026Not observedNot observed
SEP 27, 2026Not observedNot observed
SEP 26, 2026Not observedNot observed
SEP 25, 2026Not observedNot observed
SEP 24, 2026Not observedNot observed

Facts from the registry

Latest version
v0.11.0
51 versions
First published
JUN 12, 2020
Last release
APR 27, 2026
6mo ago
Licence
Apache-2.0 OR MIT

Repository

Not in the Crest catalog

rustcrypto/formats (GitHub, opens in a new tab)

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Dependencies latest version · v0.11.0

Runtime 2

  • der^0.8.0-rc.12
  • spki^0.8

Optional 4

  • ctutils^0.4
  • getrandom^0.4
  • pkcs5^0.8
  • rand_core^0.10

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