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TimothyClaeys

pycose

A Python implementation of the COSE specification (CBOR Object Signing and Encryption) described in RFC 8152.
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Monthly downloads
50.3K
Weekly downloads
12.1K
GitHub stars
45

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
1.1.0
Requires Python
>=3.7
Licence
BSD 3-Clause License
Last Release
2 years ago
Author
Timothy Claeys
First Release
February 8, 2019
Total Releases
7
Python Versions
3 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details

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

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
20
Popularity
37
Adoption
67
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
371 days ago
Monthly downloads
50,343
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
50,343
Stars
45
Stars per 1k downloads
0.89
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
1,736
Month daily avg
1,678
Momentum
+3.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
• Legacy
Supports 3.10 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
BSD 3-Clause License
• 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
1035 days ago
Total releases
7
Releases/year
0.9
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
11
Monthly downloads
50,343
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
63
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
39.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
664d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 
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Downloads by OS

Linux 701
Windows 4
macOS 4

Python Versions

3.12
60.7% 390
3.14
17.3% 111
3.13
11.5% 74
3.11
7.3% 47
3.10
3.1% 20

Top Countries

1. US US
431
2. PL PL
119
3. DE DE
46
4. SE SE
27
5. TR TR
18
6. IT IT
15
7. JP JP
10
8. NL NL
9
9. FR FR
8
10. CN CN
5

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

5
13 optional dependencies

Used By

6

Repository details

Forks
28
Issues
27
Last Commit
1 year ago
Contributors
11
Open PRs
10
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
COSE Internet of Things CBOR object security EDHOC OSCORE cryptography
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