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hwestiii
on July 29, 2022
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Remote Attestation is coming back
I'm only here to say that I think Pluton is a completely ridiculous name.
cesarb
on July 30, 2022
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It's a mythological reference: "In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pluto (Greek: Πλούτων, Ploutōn) was the ruler of the Greek underworld." (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto_%28mythology%29
). As someone else remarked in a related thread elsewhere, we already have his dog (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_%28mythology%29
) as the name of a security protocol.
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