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RACE

Research and Development in Advanced Communications Technologies in Europe

In plain language

The name of a European research programme that gave a hash function family its first letters.

The metaphor

Like the name of a lab that stayed on a product long after the lab closed.

Going deeper

How it works

  • It appears only inside the name RIPEMD.
  • The programme studied advanced communications.
  • It does not describe something you use.
  • It is listed in glossaries because of the exam lists.
In practice
  • A glossary spells out the R in RIPEMD.
  • A textbook names it in a footnote.
  • A search lands here from the longer name.

A question owners ask

Does it matter to me?

No. It is background to another term.

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