No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
rsa has 292.9M monthly downloads and 489 GitHub stars. Version 4.9.1 supports Python <4,>=3.6, first published in 2008.
Its repository is archived and was distributed under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2025.
It is built on top of pyasn1. It is used by 607 tracked packages, including awscli, python-jose and gcloud-aio-storage.
GitHub topics include python-rsa, rsa and rsa-cryptography.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
8
Popularity
58
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
446 days ago
Monthly downloads
292,884,630
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
Repository is archived on GitHub — no further commits expected.
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
292,884,630
Stars
489
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
•
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
9,192,949
Month daily avg
9,762,821
Momentum
-5.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4,>=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
Apache-2.0
•
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
446 days ago
Total releases
36
Releases/year
2.0
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
38
Monthly downloads
292,884,630
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
72
Issue Burden
28.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
30.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
6.6M
macOS
51.1K
Windows
42.8K
Python Versions
3.11
35.8%
2.1M
3.12
33.2%
2.0M
3.10
16.9%
1.0M
3.13
8.9%
529.2K
3.9
5.2%
304.9K
Top Countries
1.
US
5.0M
US
2.
IE
289.2K
IE
3.
DE
245.4K
DE
4.
IN
217.2K
IN
5.
SG
211.2K
SG
6.
JP
106.7K
JP
7.
GB
65.7K
GB
8.
CA
59.5K
CA
9.
NL
55.8K
NL
10.
AU
53.4K
AU
Dependencies
1
- pyasn1 >=0.1.3
Used By
607
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- python-jose
- gcloud-aio-storage
- oauth2client
- telethon
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- google-oauth2-tool
- c2cciutils
- cfl-common
- docassemble-base
- rapid-router
- fastapi-keycloak
- mauth-client
- biliup
- docassemble-webapp
- gcloud-rest-storage
- cloud-files
- lftools
- ethyca-fides
- alith
- apilogicserver
- morango
- tigeropen
- audible
- codeforlife-portal
- immudb-py
- renumics-spotlight
- pebble-tool
- requests-mauth
- fudstop
- dsub
- flask-frame
- aiosteampy
- synthesized
- fidesplus
- ubo-app
- mango-pycore
- teleuz
- pathl
- autodocgenerator
- sentry
- fastutils
- nana-bot
- steampy
- i2cylib
- codeforlife
- crl-datacube
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Apache-2.0
First Release
April 23, 2008
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
4.9.1
Total Releases
36
Contributors
38
Open PRs
14
Archived
Yes
Author
Sybren A. Stüvel
Python Versions
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