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layerworx/phpsodium
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An API for utilizing libsodium in PHP for encryption and message authentication

0.1(10y ago)01291[1 PRs](https://github.com/scrothers/phpsodium/pulls)MITPHPPHP >=5.4

Since Sep 10Pushed 7y ago1 watchersCompare

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###  Health Score

24

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LowBetter than 30% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

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

3994d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/bfc3f2a76c45c2cd893bcc5e71ec36595415ed4c9350cba844ec71e558b1425f?d=identicon)[crothers](/maintainers/crothers)

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Top Contributors

[![scrothers](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/111015?v=4)](https://github.com/scrothers "scrothers (2 commits)")

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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