Source: node-elliptic Section: javascript Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Jonas Smedegaard , Pirate Praveen , Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), mocha , node-assert , node-bn.js , node-brorand , node-hash.js , node-hmac-drbg , node-inherits , node-minimalistic-crypto-utils , nodejs , Standards-Version: 4.6.1 Homepage: https://github.com/indutny/elliptic Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-elliptic Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-elliptic.git Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: node-elliptic Architecture: all Depends: node-assert, node-bn.js, node-brorand, node-hash.js, node-hmac-drbg, node-inherits, node-minimalistic-crypto-utils, nodejs, ${misc:Depends}, Description: fast elliptic curve cryptography in pure javascript Fast elliptic-curve cryptography in a plain javascript implementation. . Incentive for Elliptic: ECC (another library with comparable features) is much slower than regular RSA cryptography, the JS implementations are even more slower. . Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.