logoalt Hacker News

Yorictoday at 4:49 PM1 replyview on HN

Wasn't pepper the P in PNaCl?


Replies

Randomnotoday at 5:00 PM

The P in PNaCl is Portable.

Pepper was a pun on Native Client (since NaCl = salt). Pepper Plugin API (PPAPI) was Google's more secure version of NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API). Flash Player was essentially the only thing using NPAPI/PPAPI by the end of its life.

show 1 reply