It is a contraction of "binary digit".
This is one of the terms we actually do know where come from - it was first used publicly by Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, in a paper in 1948.
it was derived from the name of the desk (hence)
In an authenticated key-agreement protocol that uses public key cryptography, perfect forward secrecy (or PFS) is the property that ensures that a session key derived from a set of long-term public and private keys will not be compromised if one of the (long-term) private keys is compromised in the future. Forward secrecy has been used as a synonym for perfect forward secrecy [1], since the term perfect has been controversial in this context. However, at least one reference [2] distinguishes perfect forward secrecy from forward secrecy with the additional property that an agreed key will not be compromised even if agreed keys derived from the same long-term keying material in a subsequent run are compromised.
Bit.
64 bit OSes use special set of instructions as well as 64 bit memory space which is in principle is not supported by 32 bit processors.
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bit is derived from the term banary digit (0 and 1)
The word 'bit' was derived from the term binary digit (0 and 1).
If you are referring to 'bit' in computer, it is derived from binary digits, the smallest data in a computer, which is a series of 0's and 1's.
The term "tattoo" is derived from the Polynesian word "tātau".
Luciferase is a term for the class of oxidative enzymes used in bioluminescence. The term is derived from the world "Lucifer", which means light bearer.
The term "scholar" was derived from the Latin word "scholaris," which means "student" or "pupil."
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The term "protein" was derived from the Greek word "proteios," meaning "of primary importance" or "in the lead."
The term "scholar" was derived from the Latin word "scholaris," which referred to one who studies or learns.
The term predates old-west cowboys. One bit is 1/8 of a dollar, derived from an old Spanish currency denomination that was divided into 8 instead of 10. Two bits is 25 cents.
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