Chaff (disambiguation)
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Chaff may refer to:
- ChaffChaffChaff is the dry, scaly protective casings of the seeds of cereal grain, or similar fine, dry, scaly plant material such as scaly parts of flowers, or finely chopped straw...
, dry, scaly, inedible plant material, especially that surrounding edible grain - Chaff (countermeasure), a radar countermeasure in which aircraft spread a cloud of small, thin pieces of aluminum foil, or sheets of metal-coated plastic.
- Chaff algorithmChaff algorithmChaff is an algorithm for solving instances of the Boolean satisfiability problem in programming. It was designed by researchers at Princeton University, USA...
, an algorithm for solving instances of the boolean satisfiability problem - Chaffing and winnowingChaffing and winnowingChaffing and winnowing is a cryptographic technique to achieve confidentiality without using encryption when sending data over an insecure channel. The name is derived from agriculture: after grain has been harvested and threshed, it remains mixed together with inedible fibrous chaff. The chaff...
, a method in cryptography to protect a message without using encryption