# ripemd160

> Compute ripemd160 of bytes or strings.

Latest version **2.0.3** (published 2025-09-23) · MIT license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install ripemd160
pnpm add ripemd160
yarn add ripemd160
bun add ripemd160
```

## Health

**Score 53/100 (C)** — status: stable.

Positive: has types package; no vulnerabilities; high quality score.

Warnings: low downloads; no esm support.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.0.3 |
| Published | 2025-09-23 |
| First published | 2013-11-21 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT |
| TypeScript types | separate (@types/ripemd160) |
| Module format | CommonJS |
| Node | >= 0.8 |
| Dependencies | 2 |
| Unpacked size | 13.2 KB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 34 |
| Maintainers | ljharb, dcousens, vbuterin, nadav, midnightlightning, cwmma, jprichardson |
| Keywords | string, strings, ripemd160, ripe160, bitcoin, bytes, cryptography |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ripemd160
- Repository: https://github.com/crypto-browserify/ripemd160
- Homepage: https://github.com/crypto-browserify/ripemd160#readme
- Issues: https://github.com/crypto-browserify/ripemd160/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/ripemd160

## Dependencies (2)

- [inherits](https://npm.io/package/inherits.md) ^2.0.4
- [hash-base](https://npm.io/package/hash-base.md) ^3.1.2

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## Recent versions

- 2.0.3 (latest) — 2025-09-23
- 2.0.2 — 2018-04-19
- 2.0.1 — 2016-06-22
- 2.0.0 — 2016-04-11
- 1.0.1 — 2015-05-05
- 1.0.0 — 2015-01-14
- 0.2.1 — 2014-12-31
- 0.2.0 — 2014-03-09
- 0.1.0 — 2013-11-21

## README

# ripemd160

[![NPM Package](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/ripemd160.svg?style=flat-square)](https://www.npmjs.org/package/ripemd160)
[![Build Status](https://img.shields.io/travis/crypto-browserify/ripemd160.svg?branch=master&style=flat-square)](https://travis-ci.org/crypto-browserify/ripemd160)
[![Dependency status](https://img.shields.io/david/crypto-browserify/ripemd160.svg?style=flat-square)](https://david-dm.org/crypto-browserify/ripemd160#info=dependencies)

[![js-standard-style](https://cdn.rawgit.com/feross/standard/master/badge.svg)](https://github.com/feross/standard)

Node style `ripemd160` on pure JavaScript.

## Example

```js
var RIPEMD160 = require('ripemd160')

console.log(new RIPEMD160().update('42').digest('hex'))
// => 0df020ba32aa9b8b904471ff582ce6b579bf8bc8

var ripemd160stream = new RIPEMD160()
ripemd160stream.end('42')
console.log(ripemd160stream.read().toString('hex'))
// => 0df020ba32aa9b8b904471ff582ce6b579bf8bc8
```

## LICENSE

MIT

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