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nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers

nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers is the plural of nothing-up-my-sleeve number.

Meaning of nothing-up-my-sleeve number

Noun

nothing-up-my-sleeve number (plural nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers)

  1. A number which, by its construction, is above suspicion of having hidden properties; used in creating cryptographic functions such as hashes and ciphers.
    • The key schedule, however, expanding the key using an essentially one-way method, is more complex, with the binary expansions of both e and the golden ratio of "nothing up my sleeve numbers".2014 May, Mr. Ajay Bhaisare, “Data Protection Outsourcing of Cloud Data to Maintain Trust between Cloud Service and Data Owner Using RC5 Algorithm”, in IJCSMC, volume 3, number 5, page 608

Questions about nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers

What is nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers the plural of?
Nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers is the plural of nothing-up-my-sleeve number.

Words near nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers in the dictionary

  1. nothing-burger
  2. nothing-burgers
  3. nothing-butteries
  4. nothing-buttery
  5. nothing-up-my-sleeve number
  6. nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers
  7. nothingarian
  8. nothingarianism
  9. nothingarians
  10. nothingburger
  11. nothingburgers

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