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Re:SLSA, an End-to-End Framework for Supply Chain Integrity by kylegill on Monday June 21, 2021 @01:04PM (#27581102)
> SLSA, pronounced “salsa”

I wonder if projects with easier to remember names linger in people's minds longer.

Is this kind of phenomenon of fun names more a marketing thing? Or more a software engineers really love naming things thing?

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Re:SLSA, an End-to-End Framework for Supply Chain Integrity by inyourbits on Monday June 21, 2021 @02:35PM (#27582279)
As the person who suggested pronouncing it 'salsa' I can tell you it's just because I thought it was fun.
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Re:SLSA, an End-to-End Framework for Supply Chain Integrity by er4hn on Monday June 21, 2021 @04:13PM (#27583795)
Good thing the SALSA cryptographic cipher ended up being not as popular as the ChaCha variant.. which is widely used at Google ;)
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