scrypt

Scrypt password-based key derivation function

0.12.0 61M downloads/mo #1088 most downloaded on crates.io RustCrypto/password-hashes

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Last release 4 months ago

22 Apr 2026

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gaps range from 2 weeks to 8 months

Nearly every release is documented

notes for 16 of 17 stable releases

6 versions withdrawn

withdrawn after publishing

10 years old

37 releases · first in 2016

10 releases in the last 12 months

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37 releases · Oct 2016 to Apr 2026

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

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latest 37

0.12.0 22 Apr 2026
Release notes
Added
- Implement PartialEq for scrypt::Params (#490)
- Params::n method (#544)
- parallel feature using rayon (#733, #785)
- mcf feature for Modular Crypt Format support (#781, #806)
- SSE2/simd128 RoMix data layout optimization (#622)
- Customizable Params for Scrypt type (#797)
- Implement kdf::{Kdf, Pbkdf} for Scrypt (#823)
Changed
- Make methods of scrypt::Params into const fn (#508)
- Bump edition to 2024; MSRV 1.85 (#563)
- Split Params::new and Params::new_with_output_len (#602)
- Use the phc crate for PasswordHash and related types (#761)
- Switch from std::error::Error to core::error::Error (#767)
- Rename simple feature to phc (#776)
- Migrate from subtle to ctutils (#845)
- Bump password-hash dependency to v0.6 (#848)
- Bump sha2 to v0.11 (#872)
- Bump salsa20 dependency to v0.11 (#875)
- Bump pbkdf2 dependency to v0.13 (#885)
Removed
- Display and FromStr impls for Params (#824)
- Incorrect N upper-bound check from Params::new (#867)
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Release notes
Added
- Implement PartialEq for scrypt::Params (#490)
- Params::n method (#544)
- parallel feature using rayon (#733, #785)
- mcf feature for Modular Crypt Format support (#781, #806)
- SSE2/simd128 RoMix data layout optimization (#622)
- Customizable Params for Scrypt type (#797)
- Implement kdf::{Kdf, Pbkdf} for Scrypt (#823)
Changed
- Make methods of scrypt::Params into const fn (#508)
- Bump edition to 2024; MSRV 1.85 (#563)
- Split Params::new and Params::new_with_output_len (#602)
- Use the phc crate for PasswordHash and related types (#761)
- Switch from std::error::Error to core::error::Error (#767)
- Rename simple feature to phc (#776)
- Migrate from subtle to ctutils (#845)
- Bump password-hash dependency to v0.6 (#848)
- Bump sha2 to v0.11 (#872)
- Bump salsa20 dependency to v0.11 (#875)
- Bump pbkdf2 dependency to v0.13 (#885)
Removed
- Display and FromStr impls for Params (#824)
- Incorrect N upper-bound check from Params::new (#867)
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0.12.0-rc.10 03 Feb 2026 pre-release
Release notes
Includes rand_core v0.10 and getrandom v0.4 upgrades.

Bumps the following dependency requirements:
- belt-hash v0.2.0-rc.5
- blake2 v0.11.0-rc.5
- blowfish v0.10.0-rc.3
- crypto-bigint v0.7.0-rc.25
- digest v0.11.0-rc.11
- hmac v0.13.0-rc.5
- password-hash v0.6.0-rc.12
- sha1 v0.11.0-rc.5
- sha2 v0.11.0-rc.5
- streebog v0.11.0-rc.5
Cuts the following releases:
- argon2 v0.6.0-rc.7
- balloon-hash v0.5.0-rc.5
- bcrypt-pbkdf v0.11.0-rc.6
- password-auth v1.1.0-rc.2
- pbkdf2 v0.13.0-rc.9
- scrypt v0.12.0-rc.10
- sha-crypt v0.6.0-rc.4
- yescrypt v0.1.0-rc.5
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0.12.0-rc.9 21 Jan 2026 pre-release

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0.12.0-rc.8 03 Jan 2026 pre-release

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0.12.0-rc.7 18 Dec 2025 pre-release

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0.12.0-rc.6 13 Dec 2025 pre-release

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0.12.0-rc.5 10 Dec 2025 pre-release

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0.12.0-rc.4 07 Dec 2025 pre-release

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0.12.0-rc.3 06 Nov 2025 pre-release

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0.12.0-rc.2 03 Sep 2025 pre-release

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0.12.0-rc.1 30 May 2025 pre-release

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0.12.0-rc.0 30 May 2025 pre-release

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0.12.0-pre.2 07 Oct 2024 pre-release

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0.12.0-pre.1 27 Jul 2024 pre-release

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0.12.0-pre.0 08 Feb 2024 pre-release

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0.11.0 05 Mar 2023
Release notes
Added
- Ability to use custom output key length (#255)
- Inherent constants for Params recommendations (#387)
Changed
- Bump password-hash to v0.5; MSRV 1.60 (#383)
- Adopt OWASP recommendations (#388)
- Bump pbkdf2 to v0.12 (#393)
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0.10.0 18 Mar 2022
Release notes
Changed
- Bump password-hash dependency to v0.4; MSRV 1.57 (#283)
- Bump pbkdf2 dependency to v0.11 (#291)
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0.9.0 17 Feb 2022
Release notes
Changed
- Bump salsa20 dependency to v0.10, edition to 2021, and MSRV to 1.56 (#273)
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0.8.1 07 Dec 2021
Release notes
Changed
- Bump sha2 dependency to v0.10, pbkdf2 to v0.10, hmac to v0.12 (#254)
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0.8.0 28 Aug 2021
Release notes
Changed
- Bump password-hash to v0.3 (#217)
- Use resolver = "2"; MSRV 1.51+ (#220)
- Bump pbkdf2 dependency to v0.9 (#233)
Removed
- McfHasher impls for Scrypt (#219)
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0.7.0 29 Apr 2021
Release notes
Changed
- Bump password-hash crate dependency to v0.2 (#164)
- Bump hmac and crypto-mac crate deps to v0.11 (#165)
- Bump salsa20 crate dependency to v0.8 (#166)
- Bump pbkdf2 crate dependency to v0.8 (#167)
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0.6.5 27 Mar 2021
Release notes
Fixed
- Pin password-hash to v0.1.2 or newer (#151)
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0.6.4 17 Mar 2021 withdrawn
Release notes
Changed
- Bump base64ct dependency to v1.0 (#144)
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0.6.3 21 Feb 2021
Release notes
Changed
- Enable rand_core feature of password-hash (#139)
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0.6.2 06 Feb 2021
Release notes
Added
- Params accessor methods (#123)
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0.6.1 01 Feb 2021
Release notes
Changed
- Bump base64ct dependency to v0.2 (#119)
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0.6.0 29 Jan 2021 withdrawn
Release notes
Added
- PHC hash support using password-hash crate (#111)
Changed
- Rename include_simple features to simple (#99)
- Rename ScryptParams => Params (#112)
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0.5.0 18 Oct 2020
Release notes
Changed
- Bump crypto-mac dependency to v0.10 (#58)
- Use salsa20crate to implement Salsa20/8 (#60)
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0.4.1 24 Aug 2020
Release notes
Changed
- Minor documentation update (#50)
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0.4.0 18 Aug 2020
Release notes
Changed
- Bump pbkdf2 dependency to v0.5 (#45)
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0.3.1 03 Jul 2020
Release notes
Fixed
- Enable alloc feature for base64. (#38)
- Remove superfluous main() in documentation (#40)
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0.3.0 10 Jun 2020
Release notes
Added
- recommended method for easy creation of recommended ScryptParam (#28)
- std feature (#32)
- thread_rng feature (#33)
Changed
- Code improvements (#33)
- Bump rand to v0.7 (#33)
- Bump hmac to v0.8 (#30)
- Bump sha2 to v0.9 (#30)
- Bump pbkdf2 to v0.4 (#36)
- Bump subtle to v2 (#13)
- MSRV 1.41+ (#30)
- Upgrade to Rust 2018 edition (#24)
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0.2.0 08 Oct 2018

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0.1.2 30 Aug 2018 withdrawn

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0.1.1 15 Jul 2018 withdrawn

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0.1.0 30 Jun 2018 withdrawn

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0.0.0 06 Oct 2016 withdrawn

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