Code review of the plutonium crate // Lib.rs

RUSTSEC-2020-0011 (notice) on 2020-04-23: Library exclusively intended to obfuscate code.

This crate allows you to write safe functions with unsafe bodies without the unsafe keyword.

The value this adds is questionable, and hides unsafe usages from naive analysis.

GHSA-gfg9-x6px-r7gr

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The current version of plutonium is 0.5.2.

0.2.2 (older version) Rating: Negative Thoroughness: None Understanding: None

by kornelski on 2020-05-13

Don't use it in production.

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