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Pure Rust implementation of Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) #5: Password-Based Cryptography Specification Version 2.1 (RFC 8018)
Last release 3 months ago
29 Jun 2026
Ships fairly regularly
a new release about every 2 months
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 11 of 11 stable releases
4 versions withdrawn
withdrawn after publishing
6 years old
31 releases · first in 2020
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pkcs5 v0.8.1
pkcs5 v0.8.0
pkcs5 v0.8.0 (#2301)
pbes2::Params constructors (#1207)EncryptionScheme::generate method gated on getrandom feature (#2297)pbes2::Parameters::generate method gated on getrandom feature (#2297)rand_core to v0.10 (#2198)getrandom to v0.4 (#2198)der to v0.8 (#2234)sha2 to v0.11 (#2273)aes to v0.9 (#2281)cbc to v0.2 (#2282)des to v0.9 (#2282)pbkdf2 to v0.13 (#2291)scrypt to v0.12 (#2291)algId PRF parameter for PBES2 params (#1521)std feature (#2294)Nothing published for this version
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[#913]: https://github.com/RustCrypto/formats/pull/913
Bump der dependency to v0.7 ([#899])
Update cipher v0.4 crates ([#411])
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Introduce Error enum with new error cases ([#26])
[#2]: https://github.com/RustCrypto/formats/pull/2
3des and des-insecure featuressha1 featureformats repo (#2)### Changed - Bump scrypt dependency to 0.8 - Bump pbkdf2 dependency to v0.9
scrypt dependency to 0.8pbkdf2 dependency to v0.9Bump der crate dependency to v0.4
der crate dependency to v0.4spki crate dependency to v0.4scrypt support as specified in RFC 7914
scrypt support as specified in RFC 7914### Changed - Bump aes to v0.7 - Bump block-modes to v0.8 - Bump hmac to v0.11 - Bump pbkdf2 to v0.8
aes to v0.7block-modes to v0.8hmac to v0.11pbkdf2 to v0.8### Changed - Bump der to v0.3 - Bump spki to v0.3
der to v0.3spki to v0.3### Added - Encryption support
- Initial release
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