PyRank
Legrandin

pycryptodome

A self-contained cryptographic library for Python
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pycryptodome has 94.2M monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 3.23.0, first published in 2014.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2025.

It is used by 2,619 tracked packages, including oss2, teradatasql and eth-keyfile.

GitHub topics include cryptography and security.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (Legrandin/pycryptodome) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
3.2M
Week
22.1M
Month
94.2M
Stars
3.2K
Forks
562
Issues
53
Version
3.23.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
76
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
99 days ago
Monthly downloads
94,170,527
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
94,170,527
Stars
3,239
Stars per 1k downloads
0.03
• 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
3,155,776
Month daily avg
3,139,018
Momentum
+0.5%
((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.*,!=3.6.*,>=2.7
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, Public Domain
• 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
415 days ago
Total releases
59
Releases/year
4.9
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
130
Monthly downloads
94,170,527
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
86
 
Issue Burden
16.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
8.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
23.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
315d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 2.1M
Windows 81.7K
macOS 30.4K

Python Versions

3.12
37.4% 736.1K
3.11
27.9% 547.6K
3.10
19.1% 375.6K
3.9
8.5% 167.5K
3.13
7.1% 139.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
1.4M
2. DE DE
218.5K
3. SG SG
122.2K
4. IE IE
71.6K
5. NL NL
68.9K
6. IN IN
49.9K
7. HK HK
42.9K
8. KR KR
39.3K
9. JP JP
37.2K
10. CN CN
29.2K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD, Public Domain
First Release
June 14, 2014
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
3.23.0
Total Releases
59
Contributors
130
Open PRs
37
Archived
No
Author
Helder Eijs
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
cp27 cp313 cp33 cp34 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39 pp27 pp310 pp36 pp37 pp38 pp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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