NaCl (software) NaCl (software) <dfn>NaCl</dfn> (pronounced "salt") is an abbreviation for "Networking and Cryptography library", a public domain "...high-speed software library for network communication, encryption, decryption, signatures, etc". NaCl was created by the mathematician and programmer Daniel J. Bernstein who is best known for the creation of qmail and Curve25519. The core team also includes Tanja Lange and Peter Schwabe. The main goal while creating NaCl, according to the paper, was to "avoid various types of cryptographic disasters suffered by previous cryptographic libraries". Reference implementation is written in C, often with several inline assembler. C++ and Python are handled as wrappers. NaCl
Compound modifier both (or all) of the words in a compound modifier are nouns, it is seen as not necessary to hyphenate them, as misunderstanding is unlikely. Japanese equivalents of adjectives can compound. This is quite common for "na"-adjectives, which function essentially as attributive noun phrases, while it is relatively uncommon for "i"-adjectives, and is much less common than Japanese compound verbs. Common examples include (noun + "i"-adjective) and ("i"-adjective stem + "i"-adjective). Compound modifier A compound modifier (also called a compound adjective, phrasal adjective, or adjectival phrase) is a compound of two or more attributive words: that is, two or more