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zeyos/cryptastic
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PHP Encryption / Decryption Using the MCrypt Library.

1.0(11y ago)365LGPLPHPPHP >=5.4.0

Since Oct 17Pushed 10y ago2 watchersCompare

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cryptastic
==========

[](#cryptastic)

THIS IS A MODIFIED VERSION OF THE cryptastic CLASS by Andrew Johnson

The original code can be found at the following URL

Example
-------

[](#example)

```
$pass = 'the password';
$salt = 'the password salt';
$msg  = 'This is the secret message.';

/**********************************************************************************************************************/

// EXAMPLE #1 USING STRING AS MESSAGE

$cryptastic = new cryptastic;

$key = $cryptastic->pbkdf2($pass, $salt, 1000, 32) or
	die("Failed to generate secret key.");

$encrypted = $cryptastic->encrypt($msg, $key) or
	die("Failed to complete encryption.");

$decrypted = $cryptastic->decrypt($encrypted, $key) or
	die("Failed to complete decryption");

echo $decrypted . "\n";

/**********************************************************************************************************************/

// EXAMPLE #2 USING ARRAY AS MESSAGE

$msg        = array('message' => $msg);
$encrypted  = $cryptastic->encrypt($msg, $key);
$decrypted  = $cryptastic->decrypt($encrypted, $key);

echo $decrypted['message'];
```

###  Health Score

27

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LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

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

4228d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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