dsa

Pure Rust implementation of the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) as specified in FIPS 186-4 (Digital Signature Standard), providing RFC6979 deterministic signatures as well as support for added entropy

0.7.0 6.8M downloads/mo #3847 most downloaded on crates.io RustCrypto/signatures

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Last release 1 months ago

30 Jun 2026

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gaps range from 8 days to 2 months

Nearly every release is documented

notes for 11 of 11 stable releases

1 version withdrawn

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8 years old

34 releases · first in 2018

13 releases in the last 12 months

see the full history below

Release timeline

34 releases · Jul 2018 to Jun 2026

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

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latest 34

0.7.0 30 Jun 2026

Release notes

dsa v0.7.0 (#1407)
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Release notes
Added
- Implement ZeroizeOnDrop for SigningKey (#917)
- Implement MultipartSigner/Verifier (#982)
- from_components_unchecked APIs gated under hazmat (#1059)
- TryCryptoRng support ([#1367])
- Implement Generate for Components and SigningKey (#1372)
Changed
- Gate signing under hazmat feature (#859)
- Use crypto-primes for key generation (#906)
- Upgrade to the 2024 edition and bump MSRV to 1.85 (#913)
- Make pkcs8 feature optional (#1014
- Bump rand_core to v0.10 (#1197)
- Bump getrandom to v0.4 (#1205)
- Bump der to v0.8 (#1232)
- Bump digest to v0.11 (#1237)
- Bump sha2 to v0.11 (#1267)
- Bump pkcs8 dependency to v0.11 (#1316)
- Bump signature dependency to v3 (#1321)
- Bump rfc6979 to v0.6 (#1404)
Removed
- std feature (#980)
Security
- Migrate from known non-constant-time num-bigint to crypto-bigint as numerical library (#906)
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0.7.0-rc.16 29 Jun 2026 pre-release

Release notes

dsa v0.7.0-rc.16 (#1398)
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0.7.0-rc.15 28 Apr 2026 pre-release

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0.7.0-rc.14 02 Mar 2026 pre-release

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0.7.0-rc.13 12 Feb 2026 pre-release

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0.7.0-rc.12 02 Feb 2026 pre-release

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0.7.0-rc.11 25 Jan 2026 pre-release

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0.7.0-rc.10 21 Jan 2026 pre-release

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0.7.0-rc.9 12 Jan 2026 pre-release

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0.7.0-rc.8 03 Jan 2026 pre-release

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0.7.0-rc.7 07 Nov 2025 pre-release

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0.7.0-rc.6 13 Sep 2025 pre-release

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0.7.0-rc.5 03 Sep 2025 pre-release

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0.7.0-rc.4 06 Aug 2025 pre-release

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0.7.0-rc.3 10 Jul 2025 pre-release

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0.7.0-rc.2 03 Jul 2025 pre-release

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0.7.0-rc.1 21 Jun 2025 pre-release

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0.7.0-rc.0 31 May 2025 pre-release

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0.7.0-pre.1 15 Oct 2024 pre-release

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0.7.0-pre.0 28 Jul 2024 pre-release

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0.6.3 28 Jan 2024
Release notes
Added
- SigningKey::sign_prehashed_rfc6979 (#798)
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0.6.2 16 Nov 2023
Release notes
Changed
- Loosen signature bound to 2.0, <2.3 (#756)
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0.6.1 05 Apr 2023
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Changed
- Loosen signature bound to 2.0, <2.2 (#697)
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0.6.0 01 Mar 2023
Release notes
Changed
- Bump rfc6979 dependency to v0.4 (#662)
- Bump pkcs8 dependency to v0.10; MSRV 1.65 (#664)
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0.5.0 15 Jan 2023
Release notes
Changed
- Use &mut impl CryptoRngCore (#579)
- Bump signature crate dependency to v2.0 (#614)
Removed
- Use of opaque-debug (#572)
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0.5.0-rc.1 08 Jan 2023 pre-release

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0.5.0-rc.0 04 Jan 2023 pre-release

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0.5.0-pre.1 29 Dec 2022 pre-release

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0.4.2 29 Oct 2022
Release notes
Added
- Expose signing and verifying of prehashed hash value (#558)
- Implement Signer and Verifier using SHA-256 as default (#559)
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0.4.1 12 Oct 2022
Release notes
Added
- Re-export BigUint (#553)
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0.4.0 15 Aug 2022
Release notes
Changed
- Bump rfc6979 to v0.3 (#500)
- Allow signature v1.6 (#513)
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0.3.0 21 May 2022
Release notes
Added
- Internal sanity check validating the r and s components of the signature (#489)
- Public OID constant representing the object identifier defined in RFC3279 § 2.3.2 (#489)
Changed
- Components::generate now takes an KeySize struct instead of an (u32, u3e2) tuple (#489)
- Components::from_components, SigningKey::from_components and VerifyingKey::from_components are now fallible and validate themselves upon creation (#489)
Removed
- is_valid methods on Components, SigningKey and VerifyingKey: constructor now ensures that invalid forms are unrepresentable (#489)
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0.2.0 16 May 2022
Release notes
- Initial RustCrypto crate release
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0.1.0 13 Jul 2018 withdrawn
Release notes
- Pre-RustCrypto release
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