I was curious about why OrpheanBeholderScryDoubt was chosen, found a unanswered question on security.se[0]. Did some more research, and found out the likely rea

I was curious about why OrpheanBeholderScryDoubt was chosen, found a unanswered question on security.se[0]. Did some more research, and found out the likely reason: Most probably just a nod to OpenBSD (look at the initials), since the algorithm was made for it. Here[1] is the original commit that introduced the string. [0]: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/237690/2876 https://security.stackexchange.com/a/237690/2876 [1]: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/crypt/bcrypt.c.diff?r1=1.2&r2=1.3&f=h https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/crypt...