Chaff (disambiguation)
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Chaff may refer to:
  • Chaff
    Chaff
    Chaff 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 algorithm
    Chaff algorithm
    Chaff 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 winnowing
    Chaffing and winnowing
    Chaffing 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
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