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beagle3
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Liblithium: A lightweight and portable cryptograph...
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)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaCl_(software)
highwaylights
on Nov 17, 2022
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Which was also the name used by Google for the precursor to WASM.
Acronyms all the way down.
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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaCl_(software)