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vanilla/legacy-passwords
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Provides support for legacy password hashing in common frameworks.

v1.0.1(9y ago)0145.2k—4.8%1MITPHPPHP >=5.4.0

Since Jan 17Pushed 9y ago16 watchersCompare

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Legacy Passwords
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[](#legacy-passwords)

Legacy Passwords is built on top of [Garden Password](https://github.com/vanilla/garden-password)and provides hashing algorithms that have incompatible license with Vanilla or are really old and not that common anymore.

###  Health Score

35

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LowBetter than 79% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity32

Limited adoption so far

Community16

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity61

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 75% 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 ~1 days

Total

2

Last Release

3392d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![DaazKu](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2412909?v=4)](https://github.com/DaazKu "DaazKu (9 commits)")[![linc](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/117672?v=4)](https://github.com/linc "linc (3 commits)")

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Tags

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