pkcs5

Pure Rust implementation of Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) #5: Password-Based Cryptography Specification Version 2.1 (RFC 8018)

0.8.1 41M downloads/mo #1418 most downloaded on crates.io RustCrypto/formats

What this package is like to depend on

Last release 1 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4 versions withdrawn

withdrawn after publishing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

8 releases in the last 12 months

see the full history below

Release timeline

31 releases · Jun 2020 to Jun 2026

2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

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Releases

latest 31

0.8.1 29 Jun 2026

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pkcs5 v0.8.1 (#2360)
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Added
- Support for using AES-GCM with PBES2 (#1433, #2313)
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0.8.0 24 Apr 2026

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pkcs5 v0.8.0 (#2301)
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Added
- pbes2::Params constructors (#1207)
- EncryptionScheme::generate method gated on getrandom feature (#2297)
- pbes2::Parameters::generate method gated on getrandom feature (#2297)
Changed
- All types now own rather than borrow their data (#1195)
- Upgrade to the 2024 edition; MSRV 1.85 (#1670)
- Bump rand_core to v0.10 (#2198)
- Bump getrandom to v0.4 (#2198)
- Bump der to v0.8 (#2234)
- Bump sha2 to v0.11 (#2273)
- Bump aes to v0.9 (#2281)
- Bump cbc to v0.2 (#2282)
- Bump des to v0.9 (#2282)
- Bump pbkdf2 to v0.13 (#2291)
- Bump scrypt to v0.12 (#2291)
Fixed
- Allow empty algId PRF parameter for PBES2 params (#1521)
- Incorrect error was being returned from CBC decryption (#1678)
Removed
- std feature (#2294)
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0.8.0-rc.13 25 Jan 2026 pre-release

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0.8.0-rc.12 19 Jan 2026 pre-release

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0.8.0-rc.11 04 Jan 2026 pre-release

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0.8.0-rc.9 06 Nov 2025 pre-release

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0.8.0-rc.8 15 Sep 2025 pre-release

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0.8.0-rc.7 09 Sep 2025 pre-release

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0.8.0-rc.6 10 Jul 2025 pre-release

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0.8.0-rc.5 03 Jul 2025 pre-release

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0.8.0-rc.4 30 May 2025 pre-release

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0.8.0-rc.3 15 Feb 2025 pre-release

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0.8.0-rc.2 07 Oct 2024 pre-release

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0.8.0-rc.1 27 Jul 2024 pre-release

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0.8.0-rc.0 26 Jul 2024 pre-release

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0.8.0-pre.0 08 Jan 2024 pre-release

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0.7.1 05 Mar 2023
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Changed
- Bump pbkdf2 to v0.12 (#913)
- Bump scrypt to v0.11 (#913)
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0.7.0 27 Feb 2023 withdrawn
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Changed
- Bump der dependency to v0.7 (#899)
- Bump spki dependency to v0.7 (#900)
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0.5.0 08 May 2022
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Changed
- Update hmac, pbkdf2, and sha2
- Update cipher v0.4 crates (#411)
- Switch from sha-1 to sha1; sha1 feature is renamed to sha1-insecure (#426)
- Bump scrypt dependency to v0.9 (#441)
- Bump der to v0.6 (#653)
- Bump spki to v0.6 (#654)
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0.5.0-pre.2 05 May 2022 pre-release

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0.5.0-pre.1 14 Mar 2022 pre-release

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0.4.0 15 Nov 2021
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Changed
- Introduce Error enum with new error cases (#26)
- Introduce specialized Result type for crate (#26)
- Rust 2021 edition upgrade; MSRV 1.56 (#136)
- Bump der dependency to v0.5 (#222)
- Bump spki dependency to v0.5 (#223)
Removed
- Legacy DES encryption support (#25)
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0.3.2 14 Sep 2021
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Added
- 3des and des-insecure features
- sha1 feature
- Support for AES-192-CBC
Changed
- Moved to formats repo (#2)
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0.3.1 30 Aug 2021
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Changed
- Bump scrypt dependency to 0.8
- Bump pbkdf2 dependency to v0.9
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0.3.0 08 Jun 2021
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Changed
- Bump der crate dependency to v0.4
- Bump spki crate dependency to v0.4
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0.2.2 26 May 2021
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Added
- scrypt support as specified in RFC 7914
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0.2.1 29 Apr 2021
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Changed
- Bump aes to v0.7
- Bump block-modes to v0.8
- Bump hmac to v0.11
- Bump pbkdf2 to v0.8
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0.2.0 22 Mar 2021 withdrawn
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Changed
- Bump der to v0.3
- Bump spki to v0.3
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0.1.1 23 Feb 2021
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Added
- Encryption support
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0.1.0 20 Feb 2021 withdrawn
Release notes
- Initial release
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0.0.0 12 Jun 2020 withdrawn

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