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terminology trivia
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. Hirschfeld)
Wed Aug 25 15:43:55 2004
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 02:00:40 +0200
From: "R. Hirschfeld" <ray@unipay.nl>
To: hal@finney.org
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Reply-To: ray@unipay.nl
> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:00:46 -0700 (PDT)
> From: hal@finney.org ("Hal Finney")
>
> A minor terminology correction: the hash is RIPEMD, the more recent (and
> still unbroken) version being RIPEMD-160. RIPEMD is the RIPE Message
> Digest, where RIPE is the EU's RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation
> project, and I haven't been able to find out what RACE stands for.
If you care:
RACE stands for Research and development in Advanced Communications
technologies in Europe. It was a European RTD programme, like ESPRIT
(European Strategic Programme for Research and development in
Information Technology), within a funding framework. RIPE was one of
the projects funded by the RACE programme.
Ray
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