aead

Traits for Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) algorithms, such as AES-GCM as ChaCha20Poly1305, which provide a high-level API

0.6.1 191M downloads/mo #521 most downloaded on crates.io RustCrypto/traits

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Last release 2 months ago

17 Jun 2026

Release timing varies

gaps range from 8 days to 11 months

Most releases are documented

notes for 10 of 13 stable releases

4 versions withdrawn

withdrawn after publishing

10 years old

32 releases · first in 2016

11 releases in the last 12 months

see the full history below

Release timeline

32 releases · Oct 2016 to Jun 2026

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

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latest 32

0.6.1 17 Jun 2026
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Changed
- Have getrandom feature enable rand_core (#2452)
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Changed
- Have getrandom feature enable rand_core (#2452)
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0.6.0 08 Jun 2026
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Added
- Enable missing_debug_implementations lint and add Debug impls (#1411)
- AeadCore::TAG_POSITION and TagPosition enum (#1798)
- Re-export crypto_common as common (#2237)
Changed
- Replace generic-array with hybrid-array (#1384)
- Edition changed to 2024 and MSRV bumped to 1.85 (#1759)
- Replace AeadInPlace with AeadInOut (#1793)
- Split new_test! into new_pass_test! and new_fail_test! (#2019)
- Bump crypto-common to v0.2 - (#2276)
Removed
- AeadCore::CiphertextOverhead constant (#1737)
- Stateful AEAD traits: AeadMut* (#1740)
- stream module - extracted into aead-stream crate (#1801)
- heapless support - will be added back in a future patch release (#1999)
- Nonce generation APIs - use Generate trait instead (#2098)
Fixed
- Minor documentation error in AeadCore::TagSize (#1351)
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Release notes
Added
- Enable missing_debug_implementations lint and add Debug impls (#1411)
- AeadCore::TAG_POSITION and TagPosition enum (#1798)
- Re-export crypto_common as common (#2237)
Changed
- Replace generic-array with hybrid-array (#1384)
- Edition changed to 2024 and MSRV bumped to 1.85 (#1759)
- Replace AeadInPlace with AeadInOut (#1793)
- Split new_test! into new_pass_test! and new_fail_test! (#2019)
- Bump crypto-common to v0.2 (#2276)
Removed
- AeadCore::CiphertextOverhead constant (#1737)
- Stateful AEAD traits: AeadMut* (#1740)
- stream module - extracted into aead-stream crate (#1801)
- heapless support - will be added back in a future patch release (#1999)
- Nonce generation APIs - use Generate trait instead (#2098)
Fixed
- Minor documentation error in AeadCore::TagSize (#1351)
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0.6.0-rc.10 02 Feb 2026 pre-release

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0.6.0-rc.9 01 Feb 2026 pre-release

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0.6.0-rc.8 24 Jan 2026 pre-release

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0.6.0-rc.7 20 Jan 2026 pre-release

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0.6.0-rc.6 19 Jan 2026 pre-release

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0.6.0-rc.5 27 Dec 2025 pre-release

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0.6.0-rc.4 26 Dec 2025 pre-release

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0.6.0-rc.3 05 Nov 2025 pre-release

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0.6.0-rc.2 02 Sep 2025 pre-release

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0.6.0-rc.1 29 May 2025 pre-release

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0.6.0-rc.0 26 Jul 2024 pre-release

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0.6.0-pre.0 08 Mar 2024 pre-release

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0.5.2 02 Apr 2023
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Added
- arrayvec feature (#1219)
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0.5.1 10 Aug 2022
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Added
- AeadCore::generate_nonce (#1073)
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0.5.0 24 Jul 2022 withdrawn
Release notes
Added
- Optional support for BytesMut as a Buffer (#956)
- getrandom feature (#1042)
Changed
- Replace NewAead trait with KeyInit trait from crypto-common (#1033)
- Rust 2021 edition upgrade; MSRV 1.56+ (#1044)
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0.5.0-pre.2 02 Jul 2022 pre-release

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0.5.0-pre.1 02 Jul 2022 pre-release

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0.4.3 29 Aug 2021
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Added
- Result type alias (#725)
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0.4.2 12 Jul 2021
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Added
- Re-export rand_core (#682)
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0.4.1 03 May 2021
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Changed
- Bump heapless dependency to v0.7 (#628)
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0.4.0 05 Feb 2021 withdrawn
Release notes
Added
- stream module (#436, #445, #447)
- NewAead::generate_key method gated under rand_core feature (#513)
Changed
- Extract AeadCore trait (#508)
- Rename NewAead::new_var to ::new_from_slice (#512)
- Disable alloc by default (#514)
- Bump heapless dependency to v0.6 (#522)
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0.4.0-pre 30 Jan 2021 pre-release

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0.3.2 01 Jul 2020
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Added
- dev module (#194)
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0.3.1 12 Jun 2020
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Added
- NewAead::new_varkey method (#191)
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0.3.0 05 Jun 2020
Release notes
Added
- Type aliases for Key, Nonce, and Tag (#125)
- Optional std feature (#63)
Changed
- NewAead now borrows the key (#124)
- Split Aead/AeadMut into AeadInPlace/AeadMutInPlace (#120)
- Bump generic-array dependency to v0.14 (#95)
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0.2.0 18 Nov 2019

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0.1.2 17 Nov 2019 withdrawn

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0.1.1 30 Aug 2019

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0.1.0 29 Aug 2019

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0.0.0 06 Oct 2016 withdrawn

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