Source: node-pseudorandombytes Section: web Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Pirate Praveen Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) , dh-buildinfo , nodejs Standards-Version: 3.9.8 Homepage: https://github.com/crypto-browserify/pseudorandombytes#readme Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-javascript/node-pseudorandombytes.git Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-javascript/node-pseudorandombytes.git Package: node-pseudorandombytes Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} , nodejs , node-create-hash (>= 1.1.2) , node-create-hmac (>= 1.1.4) , node-randombytes (>= 2.0.0) Description: crypto.pseudoRandomBytes but for use with browserify In node it just returns crypto.pseudoRandomBytes but in the browser it uses randombytes module if available else it seeds a prng based on chacha20poly1305 . To be clear there is no legitimate reason for you ever to want to use this. The algorithms used in this module are **NOT** suitable for cryptographical usage. . This package is provided **ONLY** to run tests of node-crypto-browserify. . Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.