crypto
🇺🇸 dart.dev · v3.0.7
Implementations of SHA, MD5, and HMAC cryptographic functions.
Downloads / day
287,951
Stars
68
Likes
1,874
Pub points
160
Replies within ~2 days
A head-to-head of two Cryptography packages on pub.dev, by daily downloads, GitHub activity, and maintenance.
crypto leads on usage with about 3.5x the daily downloads of pointycastle (287,951 vs 81,375 per day). pointycastle has the larger GitHub following (281 vs 68 stars).
🇺🇸 dart.dev · v3.0.7
Implementations of SHA, MD5, and HMAC cryptographic functions.
Replies within ~2 days
🇦🇺 bouncycastle.org · v4.0.0
A Dart library implementing cryptographic algorithms and primitives, modeled on the BouncyCastle library.
| Metric | crypto | pointycastle |
|---|---|---|
| Downloads / day | 287,951 | 81,375 |
| Rank in Cryptography | #1 | #3 |
| GitHub stars | 68 | 281 |
| Likes | 1,874 | 404 |
| Pub points | 160 / 160 | 140 / 160 |
| Issue response (median) | 3 days | — |
| Contributors | 99 | 62 |
| Last commit | 1 month ago | 1 year ago |
| CI | Yes | Yes |
| License | BSD-3-Clause | MIT |
| First published | 13 years ago | 10 years ago |
| Platforms | android, ios, windows, linux, macos, web | android, ios, windows, linux, macos, web |
Highlighted cell wins each comparable metric. For rank, issue response, and last commit, lower is better.