crates.io VS cargo-crev

Compare crates.io vs cargo-crev and see what are their differences.

crates.io

The Rust package registry (by rust-lang)

cargo-crev

A cryptographically verifiable code review system for the cargo (Rust) package manager. (by crev-dev)
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crates.io cargo-crev
660 55
2,768 2,000
1.9% 1.3%
10.0 7.9
about 24 hours ago 16 days ago
Rust Rust
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

crates.io

Posts with mentions or reviews of crates.io. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-26.

cargo-crev

Posts with mentions or reviews of cargo-crev. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-05.
  • Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2024
    In other cases it may be more documented, such as Golangs baked-in telemetry.

    There should be better ways to check these problems. The best I have found so far is Crev https://github.com/crev-dev/crev/. It's most used implementation is Cargo-crev https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev, but hopefully it will become more required to use these types of tools. Certainty and metrics about how many eyes have been on a particular script, and what expertise they have would be a huge win for software.

  • Rust Without Crates.io
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Nov 2023
    The main problem the author is talking about is actually about version updates, which in Maven as well as crates.io is up to each lib's author, and is not curated in any way.

    There's no technical solution to that, really. Do you think Nexus Firewall can pick up every exploit, or even most? How confident of that are you, and what data do you have to back that up? I don't have any myself, but would not be surprised at all if "hackers" can easily work around their scanning.

    However, I don't have a better approach than using scanning tools like Nexus, or as the author proposes, use a curated library repository like Debian is doing (which hopefully gets enough eyeballs to remain secure) or the https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev project (manually reviewed code) also mentioned. It's interesting that they mention C/C++ just rely on distros providing dynamic libs instead which means you don't even control your dependencies versions, some distro does (how reliable is the distro?)... I wonder if that could work for other languages or if it's just as painful as it looks in the C world.

  • I don't care about cookies” extension bought by Avast, users jump ship
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jun 2023
    For instance, the worst company imaginable may be in charge of software that was once FOSS, and they may change absolutely nothing about it, so it should be fine. However, if a small update is added that does something bad, you should know about it immediately.

    The solution seems to be much more clearly in the realm of things like crev: https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev/

    Wherein users can get a clear picture of what dependencies are used in the full chain, and how they have been independently reviewed for security and privacy. That's the real solution for the future. A quick score that is available upon display everytime you upgrade, with large warnings for anything above a certain threshold.

  • [Discussion] What crates would you like to see?
    16 projects | /r/rust | 11 Apr 2023
    You can use cargo-geiger or cargo-crev to check for whether people you trusted (e.g. u/jonhoo ) trust this crate.
  • Pip and cargo are not the same
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jan 2023
    There is a similar idea being explored with https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev - you trust a reviewer who reviews crates for trustworthiness, as well as other reviewers.
  • greater supply chain attack risk due to large dependency trees?
    11 projects | /r/rust | 4 Jan 2023
    There are also crates like cargo-supply-chain, cargo-crev and cargo-vet working on this aspect.
    11 projects | /r/rust | 4 Jan 2023
    You're probably thinking of https://github.com/mozilla/cargo-vet or https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev
    11 projects | /r/rust | 4 Jan 2023
  • Why so many basic features are not part of the standard library?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 31 Dec 2022
    [cargo-crev](https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev) looks like a good step in the right direction but not really commonly used.
  • “You meant to install ripgrep”
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Oct 2022
    'cargo crev' makes this kind of workflow possible: https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev

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