Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-08-27 16:50 UTC

ranisalt / node-argon2

Node.js bindings for Argon2 hashing algorithm

JavaScript · C++MIT★ 2,182 stars⑂ 100 forkssince Dec 2015View on GitHub ↗

#argon2 #crypto #encryption #hashing #password #hacktoberfest #nodejs

ranisalt/node-argon2 holds a health index of 81 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. It scores highest on Community & Adoption (81/100) and lowest on AI Readiness (39/100). It was last updated 2 days ago. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

overall / 100

Excellent

Software health index

Metrics are grouped into weighted categories on one standardized 1–100 scale. Overall starts as their weighted mean, calibrated against the distribution of the public record so bands carry percentile meaning; when public evidence triggers the High-Risk Jurisdiction Policy, the rating is adjusted and receives an At Risk ceiling of 34.

Exceptional93-100The record's top tier (≈ top 5%); essentially all checked criteria met

Excellent80-92Strong across the board; minor gaps

Good65-79Healthy; gaps are limited and manageable

Moderate50-64Acceptable with notable gaps; review recommended

Weak35-49Material weaknesses across several areas

At Risk20-34Significant weaknesses; adoption warrants caution

Critical1-19Severe problems (abandoned, single-maintainer, no hygiene)

Score profile

Each axis is a category. The shape matters more than the average — a healthy subject fills the whole shape, while a spike-and-crater profile means strength in one dimension is masking risk in another.

The weighted overall 69 is calibrated to 81 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

Ranieri AlthoffPersonal account

324 followers132 public repossince Jul 2012@volvo-cars

This repository is owned by a personal account. A single-owner project carries more continuity risk than an organization-backed one.

Package ecosystems

Registry	Package	Version	Downloads / mo	Versions	Last publish	Tags
npm	argon2	0.45.1	8,357,521	84	36 days ago	argon2 crypto encryption hashing password

Metrics by category

Vitality

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping?

80Excellent · 21% of overall

Development activity

72Good

How it's scored

36/36	Push recency — last push 2 days ago
11.1/36	Commit cadence — 16/52 weeks with commits
15.4/18	Commit volume — 51 commits in the last year
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 10 commit(s) and 2 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

commits_last_year	51
human_commit_share	0.57
days_since_last_push	2
active_weeks_last_year	16

Release discipline

92Excellent

How it's scored

27/27	Ships releases — 65 releases published
36/36	Release recency — latest release 36 days ago
19.8/27	Release cadence — a release every ~117.1 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data

Inputs used

releases_count	65
latest_release_tag	v0.45.1
releases_from_tags	no
days_since_latest_release	36
mean_days_between_releases	117.1

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

Community & Adoption

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?

81Excellent · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

77Good

How it's scored

54.2/60	Stars — 2,182 stars
16.6/25	Forks — 100 forks
6.5/15	Watchers — 16 watchers

Inputs used

forks	100
stars	2,182
watchers	16
growth_state	unverified
growth_factor_pct	100
growth_unverified_reason	no_history

Community health

73Good

How it's scored

22.5/22.5	README
22.5/22.5	License — recognized license (MIT)
0/18	CONTRIBUTING guide
13.5/13.5	Code of conduct
7.2/7.2	Issue template
0/6.3	PR template

Inputs used

has_readme	yes
has_license	yes
readme_badges	12
has_contributing	no
has_issue_template	yes
has_code_of_conduct	yes
readme_badge_services	opencollective.com
has_pull_request_template	no

Ecosystem adoption (downloads)

100Exceptional

How it's scored

80/80	Monthly downloads — 8,357,521 downloads/month across npm
0/20	Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem

Inputs used

packages	argon2
dependents	—
ecosystems	npm
total_downloads	—
monthly_downloads	8,357,521
unverified_packages_excluded	—

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Registry dependents. Remaining weights renormalized.

Sustainability & Governance

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?

64Moderate · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

35Weak

How it's scored

9/54	Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
2.8/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 88% of commits
13.5/13.5	Contributor breadth — 48 contributors
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 7 contributing companies or organizations

Inputs used

bus_factor	1
contributors_sampled	48
top_contributor_share	0.877

Issue & PR responsiveness

70Good

How it's scored

41.7/42	Issue resolution — 99% of issues closed
18.9/30	PR acceptance — 183/291 decided PRs merged
0/13	Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
0/15	OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 1/19 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

merged_prs	183
open_issues	2
closed_issues	253
prs_merged_7d	0
prs_decided_7d	0
prs_merged_30d	0
prs_decided_30d	0
issue_closed_ratio	0.992
closed_unmerged_prs	108
first_time_authors_30d	0
first_time_prs_merged_30d	0
first_time_prs_decided_30d	0

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.

Ownership & stewardship

66Good

How it's scored

10/30	Ownership backing — personal (user) account
0/20	Verified domain — not applicable to user accounts
18.1/25	Owner reach — 324 followers of ranisalt
25/25	Track record — 132 public repos, account ~14 yr old

Inputs used

followers	324
owner_type	User
is_verified	—
owner_login	ranisalt
public_repos	132
account_age_days	5,153

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Verified domain. Remaining weights renormalized.

Package maintenance

100Exceptional

How it's scored

25/25	Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on npm
35/35	Publish recency — latest publish 36 days ago
20/20	Version history — 84 published versions
20/20	Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked

Inputs used

packages	argon2
ecosystems	npm
any_deprecated	no
min_days_since_publish	36

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

59Moderate · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

48Weak

How it's scored

24/24	CI workflows — 3 workflow(s)
0/24	Tests present
0/16	Linter config
0/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
6.4/6.4	.editorconfig
18/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 11 out of 12 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 9

Inputs used

has_ci	yes
has_tests	no
has_editorconfig	yes
has_linter_config	no
has_precommit_config	no

Documentation

75Good

How it's scored

30/30	README
0/25	Documentation directory
15/15	Documentation / homepage site — https://www.npmjs.com/package/argon2
10/10	Repository description
10/10	Topics — 7 topics
10/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	argon2, crypto, encryption, hashing, password, hacktoberfest, nodejs
has_wiki	yes
homepage	https://www.npmjs.com/package/argon2
docs_site	https://www.npmjs.com/package/argon2
has_readme	yes
has_docs_dir	no
has_description	yes

Security

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?

70Good · 16% of overall

Security posture

62Moderate

How it's scored

7.5/7.5	Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0/7.5	Branch-Protection — no data
2.2/2.5	CI-Tests — 11 out of 12 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 9
0/2.5	CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0/7.5	Code-Review — Found 1/19 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
2.5/2.5	Contributors — project has 7 contributing companies or organizations
10/10	Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected
7.5/7.5	Dependency-Update-Tool — update tool detected
0/5	Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5	License — license file detected
7.5/7.5	Maintained — 10 commit(s) and 2 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
5/5	Packaging — packaging workflow detected
2/5	Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 4
5/5	SAST — SAST tool is run on all commits
0/5	Security-Policy — security policy file not detected
0/7.5	Signed-Releases — no data
0/7.5	Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
4.5/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 4 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	16
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	2
scorecard_aggregate	6.2

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

Dependency advisories

100Exceptional

How it's scored

35/35	Direct dependencies free of known advisories — no direct dependency carries a known advisory
25/25	Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — no indirect dependency carries a known advisory
0/40	No advisories left outstanding — no advisory carries a publication date

Inputs used

source	osv
advisories	0
affected_packages	0
assessed_packages	11
unassessed_packages	0
affected_by_severity	none
direct_affected_packages	0

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched the npm:argon2@0.45.1 runtime dependency closure — what installing the published package pulls in — 11 packages. Reachability is not analyzed.

AI Readiness

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight (4%): agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but a repository with none can still reach 100/100.

39Weak · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

23At Risk

How it's scored

0/45	Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15	Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
23.4/40	Legible commit history — 25 of 57 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	no
llms_txt_url	—
legible_history_share	0.439
agent_instruction_files	—
agent_instruction_max_bytes	—

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

35Weak

How it's scored

0/18	One-command bootstrap
0/22	Automated tests
0/11	Lint / format config
11/11	Static type checking — tsconfig.json
10/10	Reproducible environment — lockfile
2/10	Demonstrated agent practice — 1 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited
8/8	Automated maintenance — 43 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
4/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 4

Inputs used

has_nix	no
has_tests	no
lockfiles	package-lock.json
has_dockerfile	no
typed_language	no
bootstrap_files	—
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	no
typecheck_configs	tsconfig.json
agent_commit_share	0.01
toolchain_manifests	—
dependency_bot_commit_share	0.43

Code legibility for models

82Excellent

How it's scored

27/45	Type-checkable code — JavaScript with type-check config (tsconfig.json)
55/55	Manageable file sizes — 0/3 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	JavaScript
largest_source_bytes	7,490
source_files_sampled	3
oversized_source_files	0

Key facts

2,182GitHub stars

48contributors

51commits, last 12 months

2days since last push

65releases

1bus factor

2open issues

npmpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 100 ⇿

0Stars

100Forks

58Releases

When each star and fork was added, collected from GitHub and bucketed by day. Cumulative growth sits directly above the daily additions it is made of, so the two read against each other: steady organic accretion looks nothing like an abrupt, short-lived burst. Where that difference is measurable, it is reported as growth authenticity.

Major 0Minor 25Patch 33

Each point covers 10 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 6.2 / 10

6.2aggregate

Independent, tool-agnostic security assessment from the open-source OpenSSF Scorecard. Each check rewards a security practice, not a specific vendor's tool. Checks Scorecard could not determine are marked n/a and excluded from the security score (never counted as zero).Scorecard v5.5.0 · 2026-08-27 16:50 UTC

10	Binary-Artifacts	no binaries found in the repo
n/a	Branch-Protection	internal error: error during branchesHandler.setup: internal error: some github tokens can't read classic branch protection rules: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action/blob/main/docs/authentication/fine-grained-auth-token.md
9	CI-Tests	11 out of 12 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 9
0	CII-Best-Practices	no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0	Code-Review	Found 1/19 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
10	Contributors	project has 7 contributing companies or organizations
10	Dangerous-Workflow	no dangerous workflow patterns detected
10	Dependency-Update-Tool	update tool detected
0	Fuzzing	project is not fuzzed
10	License	license file detected
10	Maintained	10 commit(s) and 2 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
10	Packaging	packaging workflow detected
4	Pinned-Dependencies	dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 4
10	SAST	SAST tool is run on all commits
0	Security-Policy	security policy file not detected
n/a	Signed-Releases	no releases found
0	Token-Permissions	detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
6	Vulnerabilities	4 existing vulnerabilities detected

Direct dependencies 4

Registry	Package	Version constraint	Manifest
npm	@phc/format	`^1.0.0`	package.json
npm	cross-env	`^10.1.0`	package.json
npm	node-addon-api	`^8.9.0`	package.json
npm	node-gyp-build	`^4.8.4`	package.json

All dependencies 118

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 4 direct and 114 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

Registry	Package	Version	Relation
npm	@phc/format	`1.0.0`	direct
npm	cross-env	`10.1.0`	direct
npm	node-addon-api	`8.9.0`	direct
npm	node-gyp-build	`4.8.4`	direct
npm	@epic-web/invariant	`1.0.0`	indirect
npm	@isaacs/fs-minipass	`4.0.1`	indirect
npm	@oxfmt/binding-android-arm-eabi	`0.59.0`	indirect
npm	@oxfmt/binding-android-arm64	`0.59.0`	indirect
npm	@oxfmt/binding-darwin-arm64	`0.59.0`	indirect
npm	@oxfmt/binding-darwin-x64	`0.59.0`	indirect
npm	@oxfmt/binding-freebsd-x64	`0.59.0`	indirect
npm	@oxfmt/binding-linux-arm-gnueabihf	`0.59.0`	indirect
npm	@oxfmt/binding-linux-arm-musleabihf	`0.59.0`	indirect
npm	@oxfmt/binding-linux-arm64-gnu	`0.59.0`	indirect
npm	@oxfmt/binding-linux-arm64-musl	`0.59.0`	indirect
npm	@oxfmt/binding-linux-ppc64-gnu	`0.59.0`	indirect
npm	@oxfmt/binding-linux-riscv64-gnu	`0.59.0`	indirect
npm	@oxfmt/binding-linux-riscv64-musl	`0.59.0`	indirect
npm	@oxfmt/binding-linux-s390x-gnu	`0.59.0`	indirect
npm	@oxfmt/binding-linux-x64-gnu	`0.59.0`	indirect
npm	@oxfmt/binding-linux-x64-musl	`0.59.0`	indirect
npm	@oxfmt/binding-openharmony-arm64	`0.59.0`	indirect
npm	@oxfmt/binding-win32-arm64-msvc	`0.59.0`	indirect
npm	@oxfmt/binding-win32-ia32-msvc	`0.59.0`	indirect
npm	@oxfmt/binding-win32-x64-msvc	`0.59.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-android-arm-eabi	`1.74.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-android-arm64	`1.74.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-darwin-arm64	`1.74.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-darwin-x64	`1.74.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-freebsd-x64	`1.74.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-linux-arm-gnueabihf	`1.74.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-linux-arm-musleabihf	`1.74.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-linux-arm64-gnu	`1.74.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-linux-arm64-musl	`1.74.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-linux-ppc64-gnu	`1.74.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-linux-riscv64-gnu	`1.74.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-linux-riscv64-musl	`1.74.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-linux-s390x-gnu	`1.74.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-linux-x64-gnu	`1.74.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-linux-x64-musl	`1.74.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-openharmony-arm64	`1.74.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-win32-arm64-msvc	`1.74.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-win32-ia32-msvc	`1.74.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-win32-x64-msvc	`1.74.0`	indirect
npm	@tsconfig/node22	`22.0.5`	indirect
npm	@types/node	`24.13.3`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-aix-ppc64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-darwin-arm64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-darwin-x64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-freebsd-arm64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-freebsd-x64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-linux-arm	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-linux-arm64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-linux-loong64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-linux-mips64el	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-linux-ppc64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-linux-riscv64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-linux-s390x	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-linux-x64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-netbsd-arm64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-netbsd-x64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-openbsd-arm64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-openbsd-x64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-sunos-x64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-win32-arm64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-win32-x64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	abbrev	`4.0.0`	indirect
npm	base64-js	`1.5.1`	indirect
npm	bl	`4.1.0`	indirect
npm	buffer	`5.7.1`	indirect
npm	chownr	`1.1.4`	indirect
npm	chownr	`3.0.0`	indirect
npm	cross-spawn	`7.0.6`	indirect
npm	end-of-stream	`1.4.5`	indirect
npm	env-paths	`2.2.1`	indirect
npm	exponential-backoff	`3.1.3`	indirect
npm	fdir	`6.5.0`	indirect
npm	fs-constants	`1.0.0`	indirect
npm	graceful-fs	`4.2.11`	indirect
npm	ieee754	`1.2.1`	indirect
npm	inherits	`2.0.4`	indirect
npm	isexe	`2.0.0`	indirect
npm	isexe	`4.0.0`	indirect
npm	minimist	`1.2.8`	indirect
npm	minipass	`7.1.3`	indirect
npm	minizlib	`3.1.0`	indirect
npm	mkdirp-classic	`0.5.3`	indirect
npm	node-abi	`3.94.0`	indirect
npm	node-gyp	`12.4.0`	indirect
npm	nopt	`9.0.0`	indirect
npm	npm-run-path	`3.1.0`	indirect
npm	once	`1.4.0`	indirect
npm	oxfmt	`0.59.0`	indirect
npm	oxlint	`1.74.0`	indirect
npm	path-key	`3.1.1`	indirect
npm	picomatch	`4.0.5`	indirect
npm	prebuildify	`6.0.1`	indirect
npm	proc-log	`6.1.0`	indirect
npm	pump	`3.0.4`	indirect
npm	readable-stream	`3.6.2`	indirect
npm	safe-buffer	`5.2.1`	indirect
npm	semver	`7.8.5`	indirect
npm	shebang-command	`2.0.0`	indirect
npm	shebang-regex	`3.0.0`	indirect
npm	string_decoder	`1.3.0`	indirect
npm	tar	`7.5.20`	indirect
npm	tar-fs	`2.1.5`	indirect
npm	tar-stream	`2.2.0`	indirect
npm	tinyglobby	`0.2.17`	indirect
npm	tinypool	`2.1.0`	indirect
npm	typescript	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	undici	`6.27.0`	indirect
npm	undici-types	`7.18.2`	indirect
npm	util-deprecate	`1.0.2`	indirect
npm	which	`2.0.2`	indirect
npm	which	`6.0.1`	indirect
npm	wrappy	`1.0.2`	indirect
npm	yallist	`5.0.0`	indirect

Dependency advisories 0

Installing npm:argon2@0.45.1 pulls in 11 packages, direct and transitive: 0 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct dependencies.

No known advisories affect the assessed dependencies.

An advisory means the version recorded in the dependency graph falls inside an advisory’s affected range. Reachability is not analysed, and the graph includes development and test pins — a finding may concern tooling rather than shipped software.

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