PyRank
ethereum

eth-keyfile

Tools for handling the encrypted keyfile format used to store private keys.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

eth-keyfile has 5.5M monthly downloads and 86 GitHub stars. Version 0.9.1 supports Python <4,>=3.8, first published in 2017.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2025.

It is built on top of eth-keys, eth-utils and py-ecc. It is used by 89 tracked packages, including eth-account, eth-brownie and starknet-py.

Downloads
Day
177.5K
Week
1.2M
Month
5.5M
Stars
86
Forks
55
Issues
0
Version
0.9.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
44
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
200 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,456,955
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
5,456,955
Stars
86
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
170,679
Month daily avg
181,898
Momentum
-6.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4,>=3.8
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
511 days ago
Total releases
13
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
17
Monthly downloads
5,456,955
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
46
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
30.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
311d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 121.6K
Windows 2.9K
macOS 2.6K

Python Versions

3.12
39.1% 46.6K
3.11
32.6% 38.8K
3.13
12.0% 14.3K
3.10
9.0% 10.7K
3.14
7.3% 8.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
95.3K
2. SG SG
5.0K
3. IE IE
4.9K
4. DE DE
2.9K
5. KR KR
2.1K
6. NL NL
1.9K
7. CA CA
1.9K
8. JP JP
1.5K
9. RU RU
1.3K
10. BE BE
1.1K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
November 27, 2017
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
6 months ago
Latest Version
0.9.1
Total Releases
13
Contributors
17
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
The Ethereum Foundation
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py3
Keywords
ethereum
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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