No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
diceware has 1.3M monthly downloads and 404 GitHub stars. Version 1.0.1 supports Python 2.7+, first published in 2015.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Dec 2024.
It is used by 2 tracked packages, including edwh and pygenpass.
GitHub topics include passphrase, diceware and password.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 504 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
53
Adoption
90
Community
45
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
55 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,318,326
Active
Activity within 30 days
•
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
1,318,326
Stars
404
Stars per 1k downloads
0.31
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
•
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
50,205
Month daily avg
43,944
Momentum
+14.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=2.7
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
•
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
GNU General Public License v3.0
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
560 days ago
Total releases
21
Releases/year
1.8
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
•
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
16
Monthly downloads
1,318,326
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
53
Issue Burden
37.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
32.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
504d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
9.1K
Windows
2.3K
macOS
1.9K
Python Versions
3.13
59.7%
8.0K
3.11
19.8%
2.6K
3.12
18.6%
2.5K
3.10
1.8%
236
3.14
0.3%
34
Top Countries
1.
US
9.4K
US
2.
IE
2.3K
IE
3.
GB
503
GB
4.
DE
116
DE
5.
SG
86
SG
6.
JP
84
JP
7.
IN
83
IN
8.
NL
54
NL
9.
AU
50
AU
10.
BR
48
BR
Dependencies
0
7 optional dependencies
- black[dev]
- coverage[tests]
- pytest[tests]
- pytest-cov[tests]
- ruff[dev]
- sphinx[docs]
- sphinx-rtd-theme[docs]
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
GNU General Public License v3.0
First Release
February 18, 2015
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
1.0.1
Total Releases
21
Contributors
16
Open PRs
9
Archived
No
Python Versions
2
2.7
3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
Wheels
py2
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh