Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library

Re:Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library by apaprocki on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @07:32PM (#5335085)

It is unfortunate so many projects have overlapping names, even playing off the same kind of puns.

This: NaCL + Sodium

Google: NaCl (Native Client) + Pepper

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Re:Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library by tptacek on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @07:53PM (#5335193)

DJB's NaCL is an academic project that dates at least back to 2008.

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Re:Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library by apaprocki on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @08:55PM (#5335454)

I'm just lamenting to no one in particular that in the universe of available words/acronyms/abbreviations to describe projects we have as many collisions as we do. If I had to choose (ugh), DJB's NaCL acronym is at least more specific to its purpose than NaCl meaning "Native Client" just to make a salt + pepper pun. I guess all I'm saying is that if I ever write an open-source slab allocator, I won't call it OpenSSl.

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Re:Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library by tptacek on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @09:26PM (#5335618)

Of course not. You'd call it "6 Minute Slabs".

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Re:Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library by bascule on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @10:06PM (#5335788)

djb's NaCl and Google's NaCl appeared around the same time. The naming conflict is unfortunate, but it happens.

Hopefully Sodium doesn't suffer from the same namespace collision.

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Re:Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library by bathat on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @11:20PM (#5336059)

It's not quite as bad as Maxima (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima_%28software%29), though, where it almost feels like the project was intentionally named in a way to make googling difficult.

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Re:Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library by newman314 on Thursday March 07, 2013 @12:42AM (#5336315)

Like Go?

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Re:Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library by qznc on Thursday March 07, 2013 @01:48AM (#5336483)

C, D, R, Io, ...

Most single letters are taken for programming languages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages

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Re:Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library by ics on Thursday March 07, 2013 @02:36AM (#5336609)

The APL guys had it figured out.

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