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RUSTSEC-2026-0160

`pqcrypto-sphincsplus` is unmaintained: upstream PQClean project being archived

Details

This crate provides Rust bindings to SPHINCS+/SLH-DSA (FIPS 205) via C implementations from [PQClean](https://github.com/PQClean/PQClean). The PQClean project is being archived in or after July 2026 (see [PQClean/PQClean#604](https://github.com/PQClean/PQClean/issues/604)), after which no further security patches or bug fixes will be applied to the upstream implementations.

As a result, this crate will no longer receive updates. Users should migrate to the [`slh-dsa`](https://crates.io/crates/slh-dsa) crate, which provides a pure-Rust implementation of SLH-DSA (FIPS 205).

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Affected packages

crates.io/pqcrypto-sphincsplus
Introduced in: 0.0.0-0

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