Is nettle safe to use?

nettle has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (7.5.0). DepScope rates its health at 72/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of nettle?

The latest version of nettle is 7.5.0, released 2026-04-10.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of nettle.

No, nettle is actively maintained. Latest release: 7.5.0 (2026-04-10).

Popular alternatives to nettle in Cargo include: hashbrown, getrandom, windows-sys, syn.

nettle is licensed under LGPL-3.0-only OR GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only.

cargov7.5.0

Rust bindings for the Nettle cryptographic library

License LGPL-3.0-only OR GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only23 versions0 deps65,129 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 72/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

10/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

API access

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