Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Andre Bianchi <dr...@riseup.net>
Control: block 745661 by -1
Control: block 796777 by -1

* Package name    : siphashc
  Version         : 1.0
  Upstream Author : Eli Janssen, Carlo Pires, Michal Čihař
* URL             : https://github.com/WeblateOrg/siphashc/
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: C, Python
  Description     : siphashc is a python c-module for siphash, based on 
floodberry's version

SipHash is a family of pseudorandom functions (a.k.a. keyed hash
functions) optimized for speed on short messages. 

siphashc is a python c-module for siphash, based on floodberry's
version.

This is a dependency for Weblate (http://weblate.org): 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745661
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796777

I have asked upstream why they chose siphashc over alternatives, and the
answer was: "It was third party package where I later took over the
maintainership, that's why it's separate. I was looking at other
alternatives as well, but the problem is that the only maintained
alternative which exposes siphash is python-nacl and that performs way
worse due to working as generic hash and producing strings instead of 64
bit integers which we need. Overall it was quite big performance drop in
my tests."

The plan is to maintain it inside the Debian Python Modules Team.
Everyone is welcome to help. :-)

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