Is pinentry safe to use?

pinentry has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.8.0). DepScope rates its health at 62/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of pinentry?

The latest version of pinentry is 0.8.0, released 2026-01-03.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of pinentry.

No, pinentry is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.8.0 (2026-01-03).

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

pinentry is licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0.

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API for interacting with pinentry binaries

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 62/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

15/25

maintenance

10/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/cargo/pinentry