Bug#861453: ITP: node-shasum -- Single function in pure javascript that return the sha1sum

[Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: rouca@debian.org
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : node-shasum
  Version         : 1.0.2
  Upstream Author : 'Dominic Tarr' <dominic.tarr@gmail.com>
(http://dominictarr.com)
* URL             : https://github.com/dominictarr/shasum
* License         : Expat
  Programming Lang: JavaScript
  Description     : Single function in pure javascript that return the sha1sum

This package emulate the well know function sha1sum of Node.js in pure
javascript allowing one to use this function in browser context.
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In cryptography, SHA-1 (Secure Hash Algorithm 1) is a cryptographic
hash function designed by the United States National Security Agency
and is a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard published by the
United States NIST, SHA-1 produces a 160-bit (20-byte) hash value
known as a message digest. A SHA-1 hash value is typically rendered as
a hexadecimal number, 40 digits long.
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This a dependency of browserify
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 Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.