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libsodium itself is a fork of NaCl[0], an acronym for Networking And Cryptography Library, but also the chemical composition of table salt (Sodium Chloride; the latin name for Sodium is Natrium hence Na)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaCl_(software)



Which was also the name used by Google for the precursor to WASM.

Acronyms all the way down.




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