[squeak-dev] Name change: Mushroom ( was Re: evolutions of squeakelib & crypto)

Robert Withers robert.w.withers at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 14:07:20 UTC 2015


Thanks for doing this research, Ben. I checked 'kryptocap' with 363 
results. If not Mushroom, I kinda like this one since it is an OCap system..

Cheers,
Robert

On 12/08/2015 09:00 AM, Ben Coman wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Robert Withers
> <robert.w.withers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/07/2015 07:26 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote:
>>> Robert Withers wrote:
>>>> Ben, Huw, Todd and Sven, thank you all for your feedback!  I suppose I
>>>> could call the project "CryptOCaps" but for some reason I glommed onto
>>>> mushroom as the name. Not grandiose and it is somewhat descriptive...a
>>>> network of secure sessions, each one a mushroom. Ceps are highly valued.
>>>> We can tag it for the catalog.
>>> Though pretty old, the Mushroom Smalltalk computer was very well known
>>> at one time:
>>>
>>> http://www.wolczko.com/mushroom/
>>>
>>> Though one is a hardware project and yours is software, there is still
>>> the potential for some confusion.
>>>
>>> -- Jecel
>>
>> Oh dear, that's a potential naming conflict. Perhaps this is where the idea
>> came from, as I have read about this Mushroom Project long ago. As this
>> hardware project is not longer active, repurposing the name may be
>> reasonable but I cannot say wityhout that authority. There are 2 layers,
>> session & presentation, so perhaps 2 names are needed and the one project
>> needs splitting. And there is the consensus issue. Perhaps I should use
>> technical names and be done with it: SecureSession & CryptOCaps. Well, I
>> will leave off changing again until agreed to names are established, as I
>> don't know what to do about it, but I welcome suggestions...
>>
>> Maelstrom, Mushroom, Crystalline & Phosphor, SecureSession & CryptOCaps,
>> pther suggestions?
>
> Grinding over your previous descriptions...
>
>>> binary serialization to communicate over the wire
> securewire --> 1900
>
> secuawire --> 0
>
> immunewire --> 2
>
> wirymune --> 1  My overall favourite, if a little oblique ("wire immune").
>
> tightwire --> 91200
>
>
>>> substrate for distributed secure objects
> obtransecua --> 0
>
> obtransec --> 0 Equal favourite descriptive ("object transfer secure")
>
> secuaobj --> 0
>
> secushare --> 5880
>
> kryptobj --> 4
>
> kryptomesh --> 0  Equal favourite descriptive ("cryptographic mesh" of objects)
>
> meshobsec --> 0
>
> kryptnet --> 1220
>
>
> cheers -ben
>



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