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Offtopic. Milagro means miracle in Spanish. Not sure if that's an appropriate name for a security product. "Es un milagro que funcione" (literally, "It's a mi
by fasteo 10y ago
Offtopic.
Milagro means miracle in Spanish. Not sure if that's an appropriate name for a security product.
"Es un milagro que funcione" (literally, "It's a miracle that it works") is a very common phrase that captures the somehow pejorative sense of the word "milagro" when used to describe or qualify human creations, more so technology creations.
- ams6110 10y agoI'm not a fan of short opaque product names. What would be wrong with "Apache Distributed Cryptosystem" as a name for this? At least you don't have to stop and explain what it is all the time.
- mikecb 10y agoIt was submitted to Apache by MIRACL Labs, so seems appropriate, if not creative.
- fasteo 10y agoAppropriate. Indeed. MIRACL is actually an acronym for "Multiprecision Integer and Rational Arithmetic C/C++ Library" [1] [1] https://www.miracl.com/miracl-labs https://www.miracl.com/miracl-labs