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Just in case someone is rusty on their chemistry: NaCl == Sodium Chloride == Salt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography) http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
by kqr2 17y ago
Just in case someone is rusty on their chemistry:
NaCl == Sodium Chloride == Salt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)
- tptacek 17y agoI think it's unlikely that the name is based on password hash salts. That term occurs only very rarely in the cryptographic literature.
- kqr2 17y agoI stand corrected. I believe NaCl stands for Networking and Cryptographic Library. http://secappdev.org/handouts/2009/cryptography%20in%20DNS.pdf http://secappdev.org/handouts/2009/cryptography%20in%20DNS.p...
- sparky 17y agoTrue, but there is still a namespace conflict within the security world. Google's Native Client (http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/) is called NaCl by the developers, and more and more externally as well :P
- jrockway 17y agoThere is also a Common Lisp implementation called NaCL: http://www.cliki.net/NaCL http://www.cliki.net/NaCL