What does RIPEMD stand for?
by John from John D. Cook on (#5JPVQ)
The RIPEMD-160 secure hash function may be best known these days for its role as part of the implementation of Bitcoin. I've wondered what RIPEMD" stands for, and today I stumbled on an explanation [1]:
RIPEMD" stands for RIPE Message Digest," where RIPE" stands for RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation" and where RACE" stands for Research and Development in Advanced Communications Technologies in Europe"-a nice example of a recursive abbreviation.
This deserves a diagram:
I created the diagram above with DITAA.
Related posts[1] Introduction to Cryptography with Open-Source Software by Alasdair McAndrew. CRC Press. 2011
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