Na stands for #Natrium; #NaCl is called Natrium Chloride here.

In the USA NaCl is called Sodium Chloride. I always wondered why.

I suspect that Lot's wife is to blame for this. She looked behind her at Sodom and was turned into a pillar of salt, hence Sodium Chloride.

Thanks a Lot's wife, for creating this confusion!

#Chemistry #Chemiverse #Salt #BibleStories

The Christian Nationalist Machine Turning Hate Into Law
“Long a shadowy force in American politics, Christian Nationalism is having a coming out party. The movement seeks a fusion of fundamentalist theology with American civic life.”

https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1628759230189645829?s=20

From Rolling Stone:

https://newsviews.online/2023/02/23/the-christian-nationalist-machine-turning-hate-into-law/
#FundieFreaks #ChristianNationalism #JasonRapert #NACL #RepublicanParty

The common cause is “rolling your own protocol”. At the time when #Threema first released, the space of messaging protocols was still pretty empty, but OTR (from 2004) did already achieve forward secrecy. Threema is entirely built upon NaCl, the cryptographic library by Daniel J Bernstein. It was interesting to see, when talking to the team, that some of the bad design decisions (such as not authenticating the metadata of messages) arose from limitations of the #NaCl APIs. Another point to be made is that a company whose main product is based on cryptography, should always have a cryptographer at hand to assess its security and to propose already-existing protocols when possible, for example the battle-tested TLS instead of creating their bespoke client-to-server protocol.

The Threema protocols lack(ed) basic properties that are nowadays considered de rigueur for a messenger app to be regarded as secure: forward secrecy with respect to a malicious server, and protection against replay, reflection, and reordering attacks. While developers mostly stopped “rolling their own” cryptographic primitives, rolling your own protocol can be as dangerous: the recent attacks on Mega and Matrix are also an example of this. We need more provable security, and more scrutiny for cryptographic protocols before they are deployed.

from page 2: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/messenger-billed-as-better-than-signal-is-riddled-with-vulnerabilities/2/

#infosec

Oha. @threemaapp hat #NaCl in Rente geschickt: https://threema.ch/de/blog/posts/ibex-de
Ist #Ibex schon auditiert?

Me when I weigh salt! 😂
#MemeMondays
#saltbae
#NaCl

Cristaux de chlorure de sodium a priori.

http://forums.futura-sciences.com/chimie/265237-eau-de-javel.html

#nacl

#Secure Large File Decryption using #Linux, #Go and #Nacl

Decrypting large files that do not fit in RAM is a very old problem and unfortunately, there are no good solutions for them.
Streaming is certainly NOT a good solution.
In this article, I try to explain the challenges and I present a possible solution that I believe is secure, using a bunch of Linux syscalls and an excellent crypto library written in Go: Nacl.

https://www.broken-by-design.fr/posts/large-file-decrypt-en/

Déchiffrement sécurisé de gros fichiers, grâce à #linux

https://www.broken-by-design.fr/posts/large-file-decrypt/

#Go #nacl

@SoatokDhole@twitter.com and I are having a friendly debate on lobster.rs about #JavaScript #cryptography libraries (I have a lot of respect for Soatok). So I'm curious.

If you were to implement a JavaScript cryptography library, which would you choose, and why?

#OpenPGP #NaCl #libsodium

The encryption library used by #KeePassXC for their browser plugins is based on a minified version of #NaCl ...

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc-browser/blob/develop/keepassxc-protocol.md

... which prides itself on fitting within 100 tweets! 🔍 ⛓️

https://twitter.com/tweetnacl

Strange hexagonal form of table salt discovered

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/strange-hexagonal-form-of-table-salt-discovered/4011980.article

#salt #chemistry #sodium #chloride, #hexagonal #shape #molecule #NaCl