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Jul 2026

A Specific Key

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Today's anonymous submission isn't really a WTF, but it highlights the hardest problem in computer science: naming things.

For example, let's say you saw a method called handleRSAPrivateKeyGeneration. You'd likely assume that it generates an RSA private key. More specifically, it accepts a request for a private key and handles that request. It's right there in the name.