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msoffcrypto-tool

Python tool and library for decrypting and encrypting MS Office files using passwords or other keys
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

msoffcrypto-tool has 11.6M monthly downloads and 616 GitHub stars. Version 6.0.0 supports Python <4.0,>=3.10, first published in 2018.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2026.

It is built on top of cryptography and olefile. It is used by 36 tracked packages, including oletools, open-webui and office-word-mcp-server.

GitHub topics include ole, ooxml and docx.

Downloads
Day
377.4K
Week
2.9M
Month
11.6M
Stars
616
Forks
91
Issues
14
Version
6.0.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
58
Adoption
80
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
175 days ago
Monthly downloads
11,558,585
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
11,558,585
Stars
616
Stars per 1k downloads
0.05
• 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
409,554
Month daily avg
385,286
Momentum
+6.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4.0,>=3.10
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
MIT
• 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
175 days ago
Total releases
35
Releases/year
4.3
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
12
Monthly downloads
11,558,585
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
34
 
Issue Burden
22.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
13.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 153.6K
Windows 8.9K
macOS 2.6K

Python Versions

3.12
42.7% 68.0K
3.10
25.9% 41.2K
3.11
17.7% 28.1K
3.13
8.6% 13.7K
3.14
5.1% 8.0K

Top Countries

1. US US
95.3K
2. SG SG
22.7K
3. NL NL
6.9K
4. IN IN
6.7K
5. DE DE
5.6K
6. IE IE
4.0K
7. GB GB
3.9K
8. AU AU
3.4K
9. CN CN
3.0K
10. HK HK
1.5K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
May 12, 2018
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
5 months ago
Latest Version
6.0.0
Total Releases
35
Contributors
12
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
nolze
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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