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phauthentic/password-hashers
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Password Hashing Library

3.0.0(2y ago)07.1k[1 PRs](https://github.com/Phauthentic/password-hasher/pulls)1MITPHPPHP ^8.0CI failing

Since Oct 19Pushed 5mo ago2 watchersCompare

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Password Hashers
================

[](#password-hashers)

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A simple password hasher library.

This is mostly an abstraction around password hashers to have an OOP interface to work with.

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

[](#installation)

Installation via [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/)

```
composer require Phauthentic/password-hashers
```

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

- [Default Password Hasher](./docs/DefaultPasswordHasher.md) features all algorithms [phps password\_hash()](http://php.net/manual/de/function.password-hash.php) features.
- [Fallback Password Hasher](./docs/FallbackPasswordHasher.md) transparently upgrade hashes to new hash algorithms
- [Md5 & Sha1 Password Hasher](./docs/Md5-and-Sha1-PasswordHasher.md) deprecated hasing algorithms for legacy apps
- [Implementing your own Hasher](./docs/Implementing-your-own-Hasher.md)

Copyright & License
-----------------------

[](#copyright--license)

Licensed under the [MIT license](LICENSE.txt).

- Copyright (c) [Phauthentic](https://github.com/Phauthentic)
- Copyright (c) [Cake Software Foundation, Inc.](https://cakefoundation.org)

###  Health Score

42

—

FairBetter than 88% of packages

Maintenance49

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity22

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity72

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 91.5% 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 ~328 days

Recently: every ~263 days

Total

7

Last Release

842d ago

Major Versions

1.0.x-dev → 2.0.02021-04-25

2.0.x-dev → 3.0.02024-03-13

PHP version history (4 changes)1.0.0PHP ~7.1

1.0.x-devPHP ^7.1|^8.0

2.0.0PHP ^7.4|^8.0

3.0.0PHP ^8.0

### Community

Maintainers

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![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7437773?v=4)[Robert Pustułka](/maintainers/robertpustulka)[@robertpustulka](https://github.com/robertpustulka)

---

Top Contributors

[![burzum](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/162789?v=4)](https://github.com/burzum "burzum (43 commits)")[![floriankraemer](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4996022?v=4)](https://github.com/floriankraemer "floriankraemer (4 commits)")

---

Tags

dependency-freehashhashinglibrarypasswordpassword-hashpassword-hasherpassword-hasherspassword-safetysecurity

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StylePHP\_CodeSniffer

Type Coverage Yes

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