netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v6 00/23] WireGuard: Secure Network Tunnel

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Date:   Fri, 28 Sep 2018 15:40:37 +0200
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Cc:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 00/23] WireGuard: Secure Network Tunnel

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 9:52 AM Ard Biesheuvel
<ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org> wrote:
> As I understood from someone who was at your Kernel Recipes talk, you
> mentioned that it actually stands for 'zinc is not crypto/' (note the
> slash)

I mentioned this was in v1 but it wasn't taken as lightly as planned
and was removed, so if it needs a recursive acronym it can be "zinc is
nice crypto", "zinc is neat crypto", or as the commit message
mentions, "zinc as in crypto." Alternatively, it can just not stand
for anything at all. Zinc -> Zinc. That's what the thing is called.