secure-random
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A simple JavaScript component to normalize the creation of cryptographically strong random values.
Context switching between the browser and Node.js and creating cryptographically secure random numbers is annoying. This normalizes the behavior. Used by cryptocoinjs
npm install --save secure-random
component install jprichardson/secure-random
bower install secure-random
<script src="/path/to/secure-random.js"></script>
count: is the number of elements to return.
options: options to pass. Only valid value is array.
Returns a Uint8Array or Array if options.array is set.
var bytes = secureRandom(10)
console.log(bytes.length) //10
(MIT License)
Copyright 2013, JP Richardson
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Normalize the creation of cryptographically strong random values.
The npm package secure-random receives a total of 86,800 weekly downloads. As such, secure-random popularity was classified as popular.
We found that secure-random demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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