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mikerow/salt
============

NaCl cryptography library for PHP

v1.0.7(5y ago)025312PHP

Since Aug 13Pushed 5y agoCompare

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Salt
====

[](#salt)

[NaCl](http://nacl.cr.yp.to/) cryptography library for PHP

This repository is a PSR-4 Composer-ready version of [devi/Salt](https://github.com/devi/Salt) and [jaimehgb/Salt](https://github.com/jaimehgb/Salt)

---

Install
-------

[](#install)

```
composer require mikerow/salt
```

---

Features
--------

[](#features)

- [Blake2b](https://github.com/MikeRow/Salt/tree/master/src/Blake2b)
- [Chacha20](https://github.com/MikeRow/Salt/tree/master/src/Chacha20)
- [Chacha20Poly1305](https://github.com/MikeRow/Salt/tree/master/src/Chacha20Poly1305)
- [Curve25519](https://github.com/MikeRow/Salt/tree/master/src/Curve25519)
- [Ed25519](https://github.com/MikeRow/Salt/tree/master/src/Ed25519)
- [Poly1305](https://github.com/MikeRow/Salt/tree/master/src/Poly1305)
- [Salsa20](https://github.com/MikeRow/Salt/tree/master/src/Salsa20)
- [Salt](https://github.com/MikeRow/Salt/blob/master/src/Salt.php)

    cryptography methods
- [NanoSalt](https://github.com/MikeRow/Salt/blob/master/src/NanoSalt.php)

    cryptography methods for Banano/Nano currencies (different signing)

---

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

Thanks a lot for the work and effort of

- [devi/Salt](https://github.com/devi/Salt)
- [jaimehgb/Salt](https://github.com/jaimehgb/Salt)

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 59% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 50% 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 ~8 days

Recently: every ~1 days

Total

8

Last Release

2044d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/47996463?v=4)[MikeRow](/maintainers/MikeRow)[@MikeRow](https://github.com/MikeRow)

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Top Contributors

[![devi](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/300665?v=4)](https://github.com/devi "devi (18 commits)")[![MikeRow](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/47996463?v=4)](https://github.com/MikeRow "MikeRow (18 commits)")

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Tags

cryptographylibrarynaclnanophpsaltphpcryptographylibrarysaltnanonacl

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