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In crypto code you often have conventions to name a certain value with a letter. E.g. RSA public keys consist of the values N, e, private keys also have d, p, q
by hannob 4y ago
In crypto code you often have conventions to name a certain value with a letter. E.g. RSA public keys consist of the values N, e, private keys also have d, p, q etc.
One may argue whether a, b and m are as "commonly known" for modular exponentiation. Still: There are definitely valid cases to use single letter variable names if they are the most well known "names" of certain values.
- mistrial9 4y agothis comes from a culture of obscurity and cryptic writings.. thirty character variable names? no way ; single character variable names? terse no context variable names ? variables used in differerent local blocks with the same names? really, clueless ..