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Absolutely a reference. Dilithium (from Star Trek) is name of their signature algorithm.

• throw0101c 3y ago
  The trick to naming things is to first find a cool word/reference, and then 'reverse engineer' it as an acronym second: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym
  • ryukafalz 3y ago
    Though you can easily take it too far; I think US legislators have been running out of reasonable backronyms :)