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pgpy

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

pgpy has 6.9M monthly downloads and 344 GitHub stars. Version 0.6.0 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2014.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2022.

It is used by 37 tracked packages, including edx-enterprise, skchat-sovereign and flowtask.

Downloads
Day
250.4K
Week
1.6M
Month
6.9M
Stars
344
Forks
113
Issues
122
Version
0.6.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
56
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1210 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,895,241
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
6,895,241
Stars
344
Stars per 1k downloads
0.05
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
234,535
Month daily avg
229,841
Momentum
+2.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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
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
1321 days ago
Total releases
15
Releases/year
1.2
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
39
Monthly downloads
6,895,241
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
73
 
Issue Burden
354.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
34.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
110d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 180.3K
Windows 488
macOS 71

Python Versions

3.10
45.4% 80.7K
3.12
24.2% 43.0K
3.11
16.6% 29.5K
3.9
9.4% 16.8K
3.7
4.4% 7.8K

Top Countries

1. IE IE
69.8K
2. US US
66.8K
3. DE DE
16.1K
4. SG SG
7.1K
5. IN IN
5.5K
6. BR BR
4.9K
7. NL NL
2.5K
8. AU AU
2.1K
9. TH TH
2.0K
10. GB GB
1.9K

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
May 3, 2014
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
3 years ago
Latest Version
0.6.0
Total Releases
15
Contributors
39
Open PRs
33
Archived
No
Author
Michael Greene
Python Versions
3 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
OpenPGP PGP Pretty Good Privacy GPG GnuPG encryption signature
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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