Source: node-pseudorandombytes Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Pirate Praveen Section: javascript Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-nodejs Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) , dh-sequence-nodejs , ent , node-create-hash , node-create-hmac , node-randombytes Standards-Version: 4.6.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-pseudorandombytes Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-pseudorandombytes.git Homepage: https://github.com/crypto-browserify/pseudorandombytes Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: node-pseudorandombytes Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} , node-create-hash , node-create-hmac , node-randombytes 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.