# google/mundane

Mundane is a Rust cryptography library backed by BoringSSL that is difficult to misuse, ergonomic, and performant (in that order).

Repository: https://github.com/google/mundane
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mundane
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: cryptography, rust, boringssl
Last push: 2023-07-07T16:15:57+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2892, "days_push": 1153, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1084, forks 43 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:31.400267+00:00)

## What it is
Mundane is a Rust cryptography library backed by BoringSSL, designed to be difficult to misuse, ergonomic, and performant. It vendors its own BoringSSL copy with symbol prefixing to avoid link-time conflicts.

## Use cases
- add cryptographic primitives to a Rust application safely
- use BoringSSL from Rust with an ergonomic API
- prevent common crypto API misuse in Rust code
- hash and encrypt data in a Rust project
- avoid symbol conflicts when multiple crypto library versions coexist

## When to choose
- you want a misuse-resistant crypto API in Rust
- you prefer BoringSSL as the underlying implementation
- you need vendored dependencies so BoringSSL isn't installed locally

## When to avoid
- you need Windows or cross-compilation support
- you need a broadly supported or actively developed crypto library
- you need FIPS-validated cryptography

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: cryptography, security
- domain: security, developer-tools
- platform: rust
- tags: boringssl, difficult-to-misuse, crypto-library, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- google/mundane (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:31.400267+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:50:02.165954+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/google/mundane (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:31.400267+00:00, sha 9478f4de47f4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.