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Rust Crypto

Cryptographic algorithms written in pure Rust

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We maintain dozens of popular crates which provide pure Rust implementations of cryptographic algorithms, including the following:

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  1. AEADs AEADs Public

    Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data Algorithms: high-level encryption ciphers

    Rust 890 179

  2. elliptic-curves elliptic-curves Public

    Collection of pure Rust elliptic curve implementations: NIST P-224, P-256, P-384, P-521, secp256k1, SM2

    Rust 832 264

  3. formats formats Public

    Cryptography-related format encoders/decoders: DER, PEM, PKCS, PKIX

    Rust 306 172

  4. hashes hashes Public

    Collection of cryptographic hash functions written in pure Rust

    Rust 2.2k 308

  5. signatures signatures Public

    Cryptographic signature algorithms: DSA, ECDSA, Ed25519

    Rust 587 167

  6. traits traits Public

    Collection of cryptography-related traits

    Rust 701 230

Repositories

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  • RSA Public

    RSA implementation in pure Rust

    RustCrypto/RSA’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 645 Apache-2.0 176 27 (1 issue needs help) 3 Updated Jan 21, 2026
  • KEMs Public

    Collection of Key Encapsulation Mechanisms written in pure Rust

    RustCrypto/KEMs’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 66 32 9 3 Updated Jan 21, 2026
  • signatures Public

    Cryptographic signature algorithms: DSA, ECDSA, Ed25519

    RustCrypto/signatures’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 587 167 11 (1 issue needs help) 3 Updated Jan 21, 2026
  • utils Public

    Utility crates used in RustCrypto

    RustCrypto/utils’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 587 151 22 (1 issue needs help) 2 Updated Jan 21, 2026
  • formats Public

    Cryptography-related format encoders/decoders: DER, PEM, PKCS, PKIX

    RustCrypto/formats’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 306 172 46 20 Updated Jan 21, 2026
  • password-hashes Public

    Password hashing functions / KDFs

    RustCrypto/password-hashes’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 854 102 10 (1 issue needs help) 1 Updated Jan 21, 2026
  • SSH Public

    Pure Rust implementation of components of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol

    RustCrypto/SSH’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 206 48 7 3 Updated Jan 21, 2026
  • actions Public

    GitHub Actions configs: composite actions and shared workflow configuration

    RustCrypto/actions’s past year of commit activity
    6 5 4 0 Updated Jan 21, 2026
  • KDFs Public

    Collection of Key Derivation Functions written in pure Rust

    RustCrypto/KDFs’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 86 34 1 0 Updated Jan 21, 2026
  • MACs Public

    Message authentication code algorithms written in pure Rust

    RustCrypto/MACs’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 336 43 2 (1 issue needs help) 2 Updated Jan 21, 2026