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elcodedocle/phpass
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fork of Solar Designer's http://www.openwall.com/phpass/ with enhanced security updates

0.3.0(8y ago)3441MITPHPPHP >=3.0.18

Since Feb 19Pushed 8y ago1 watchersCompare

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phpass by elcodedocle
=====================

[](#phpass-by-elcodedocle)

\#####*A phpass portable PHP password hashing framework upgrade for these modern times we're living in*

Copyright (C) 2013 Gael Abadin
License: [MIT Expat](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elcodedocle/phpass/master/LICENSE)
[![Code Climate](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/57ce28fa91215fbe6b9047437114e6aa718a13b45b6eba6b223ff80dabc00b8b/68747470733a2f2f636f6465636c696d6174652e636f6d2f6769746875622f656c636f6465646f636c652f7068706173732e706e67)](https://codeclimate.com/github/elcodedocle/phpass)

### How to use

[](#how-to-use)

The same way as regular phpass; check out the embedded phpdoc for info on the extras.

### Motivation

[](#motivation)

I wanted to implement proper hashing on my web app. password\_hash seemed the way to go, but it's only supported by the most recent versions of PHP (at the time of writing this, PHP 5.5.0 was realeased just a few months ago...).

So I did some research and the most reasonably fast and tested library was phpass, but it lacked support for, guess what, password\_hash. Since password\_hash should be the default option (at last, a sane way to use crypt!) and none of the other phpass hacks I checked (Drupal, WordPress) had it I decided to add it myself.

In the process, adding also support for sha512 and sha256 on portable methods seemed easy enough, so I beefed that up too.

### Acks

[](#acks)

Solar Designer, author of the original library at

Enjoy!

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###  Health Score

24

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LowBetter than 32% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity48

Maturing project, gaining track record

 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3010d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3731026?v=4)[elcodedocle](/maintainers/elcodedocle)[@elcodedocle](https://github.com/elcodedocle)

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Top Contributors

[![elcodedocle](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3731026?v=4)](https://github.com/elcodedocle "elcodedocle (11 commits)")

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Tags

bcryptpassword hashingpassword hashphpasssecure password storagerainbow attack protectionpassword\_verifypassword salting

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