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ecdsa

pure-python ECDSA signature/verification and ECDH key agreement
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ecdsa has 59.5M monthly downloads and 975 GitHub stars. Version 0.19.2, first published in 2010.

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

It is built on top of six. It is used by 402 tracked packages, including python-jose, checkov and injective-py.

GitHub topics include elliptic-curves, cryptography and digital-signatures.

Downloads
Day
1.8M
Week
12.9M
Month
59.5M
Stars
975
Forks
337
Issues
15
Version
0.19.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
67
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
30 days ago
Monthly downloads
59,525,501
• 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
59,525,501
Stars
975
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
• 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
1,843,412
Month daily avg
1,984,183
Momentum
-7.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,!=3.3.*,!=3.4.*,!=3.5.*,>=2.6
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
MIT
• 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
104 days ago
Total releases
23
Releases/year
1.5
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
47
Monthly downloads
59,525,501
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
76
 
Issue Burden
15.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
8.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
13.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
73d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 1.1M
Windows 38.5K
macOS 12.7K

Python Versions

3.12
37.0% 409.9K
3.11
30.4% 336.6K
3.13
19.8% 219.6K
3.14
6.6% 73.4K
3.10
6.2% 68.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
823.4K
2. GB GB
56.5K
3. DE DE
45.5K
4. IN IN
28.5K
5. IE IE
27.4K
6. SG SG
24.0K
7. NL NL
15.8K
8. FR FR
11.7K
9. JP JP
11.6K
10. CA CA
10.2K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
October 16, 2010
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
0.19.2
Total Releases
23
Contributors
47
Open PRs
3
Archived
No
Author
Brian Warner
Python Versions
2 2.6 2.7 3 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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