JA3... really? I don't think this name is vague enough. We can do better. about ja3

[WilliamSalusky]

Love the comment @825i ! And the J A's have heard similar from me IRL, voice to ears. Hey J's, I swear that I am not 825i!

For fun, I've suggested these in the past:
STUF = SSL / TLS Unique Fingerprints
STFU = SSL / TLS Fingerprinting Uniqueness

Personally, I could see myself conversing about STUF hashes.

[825i]

STUF actually makes a LOT of sense. It's easily recognisable, practical and it's also even brand-worthy.

STFU is obviously... a little too edgy for something like this. I hope the 3 JA's have a look at this and come to an understanding that if this is going to really take off, it needs a rebrand.

Thanks again for your input William.

[WilliamSalusky]

STFU was tongue in cheek, not to say I haven't personally expanded the acronym in conversation with Althouse directly! ;)

Besides, the "Spamhaus Tactical Forensics Unit" already has dibs.

[rlallen-nps]

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[philhagen]

The irony of this issue being filed by an account named "825i"...

Seriously though? Doesn't matter. It's named what it's named and it works about as well as any other. We don't need a marketing department to name a hash. MD5 is probably a dumb name in someone's opinion too, but here we are.

[825i]

The irony of this issue being filed by an account named "825i"...

My name used to be a lot longer actually, it was [redacted] but I got bored of it and searched for a name that was much easier to write when connecting various services to Github, logging in, using tokens and all that kind of jazz. It starts to get annoying writing in your long username. You'd be surprised how long it took to find a 4 character username that wasn't taken.

In any case, the name still sucks. STUF would make much more sense all things considered. Never underestimate the usefulness of a good name. Another nice thing about mine is it's extremely memorable for me, but forgettable for everyone else, which is exactly what I want.

I mean what clown these days and in this world of security breaches, stalking, identity theft and other madhousery would ever list their real name, phone, location and so on, online. Someone like that probably has a self-titled blog they wrote in all of 5 times and never bothered to touch again, and they're likely still paying for the domain name 5 years later in case they ever get around to actually using it for something. They probably also put photos of their kids online too which predators love to batch download.

Hope you're not feeling attacked mate. Point is, everyone likes being cocky or even naïve until they lose that luxury. There's just as much reason to name something easily identifiable (JA3), as there is to not (825i).

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Made by 3 j*ws. No bonus points for wondering why they named it after themselves.

[philhagen]

you're certainly a piece of work. cheers and best of luck to you.