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> SLSA, pronounced “salsa”

I wonder if projects with easier to remember names linger in people's minds longer.

Is this kind of phenomenon of fun names more a marketing thing? Or more a software engineers really love naming things thing?

As the person who suggested pronouncing it 'salsa' I can tell you it's just because I thought it was fun.

Good thing the SALSA cryptographic cipher ended up being not as popular as the ChaCha variant.. which is widely used at Google ;)