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affinity4/cipher
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Cipher encrypt/decrypt. Encrypt and decrypt private strings. Useful if you need to store a string as a hash but need to see it as plain text also. DO NOT USE FOR PASSWORD AUTHENTICATION!

2.0.0(3y ago)0337MITPHPPHP >=7.4

Since Apr 7Pushed 3y ago1 watchersCompare

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Affinity4 Cipher
================

[](#affinity4-cipher)

Encrypt and decrypt private strings. Useful if you need to store a string as a hash but need to see it as plain text also.

**DO NOT USE FOR PASSWORD AUTHENTICATION!**

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

### Composer

[](#composer)

```
composer require affinity4/cipher
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
// Used by both excrypt and decrypt methods, so should be available globally
// Perhaps as an environment variable
$key = 'b1f1e6225cb2b6d0230b16125e45ca63';
$str = 'my secret';

$encrypted = \Affinity4\Cipher\Cipher::encrypt($str, $key); // piqwpeiqep12801aqwie0248quqjowq==
$decrypted = \Affinity4\Cipher\Cipher::decrypt($encrypted, $key); // my secret
```

Licence
-------

[](#licence)

MIT 2018 Luke Watts

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 59% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity64

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~1508 days

Total

2

Last Release

1450d ago

Major Versions

1.0.0 → 2.0.02022-05-25

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0.0PHP >=5.6

2.0.0PHP >=7.4

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6eda764179ed00e7d50099142dc56015a0a5a44542d6df9bb80fe087418efceb?d=identicon)[Affinity4](/maintainers/Affinity4)

---

Top Contributors

[![lukewatts](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4622166?v=4)](https://github.com/lukewatts "lukewatts (1 commits)")

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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