No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

cryptography has 1.4B monthly downloads and 8K GitHub stars. Version 49.0.0, first published in 2014.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of cffi and typing-extensions. It is used by 10,754 tracked packages, including google-auth, pyopenssl and secretstorage.

GitHub topics include cryptography.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (pyca/cryptography) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
44.7M
Week
315.6M
Month
1.4B
Stars
7.7K
Forks
1.8K
Issues
13
Version
49.0.0

Package Insights

Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
84
Adoption
70
Community
90
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,353,961,683
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
1,353,961,683
Stars
7,654
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
45,089,136
Month daily avg
45,132,056
Momentum
-0.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
!=3.9.0,!=3.9.1,>=3.9
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Apache-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
24 days ago
Total releases
158
Releases/year
12.6
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
362
Monthly downloads
1,353,961,683
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
78
 
Issue Burden
1.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
20.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 33.1M
Windows 970.2K
macOS 264.9K

Python Versions

3.12
31.4% 9.9M
3.11
24.2% 7.6M
3.10
19.6% 6.2M
3.13
14.8% 4.6M
3.9
10.0% 3.1M

Top Countries

1. US US
26.6M
2. IE IE
1.2M
3. IN IN
1.1M
4. DE DE
934.8K
5. SG SG
802.1K
6. NL NL
746.2K
7. GB GB
371.3K
8. JP JP
333.5K
9. FR FR
305.0K
10. AU AU
259.2K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause
First Release
January 8, 2014
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
49.0.0
Total Releases
158
Contributors
362
Open PRs
14
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp26 cp27 cp311 cp314 cp32 cp33 cp34 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39 pp226 pp27 pp310 pp311 pp36 pp37 pp38 pp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh