Fans of geeky names like GNU (which famously and recursively stands for GNUs Not Unix) and WINE (WINE Is Not an Emulator) will probably also like the name of a new approach for online authentication, dubbed CAKE. The acronym stands for Key-Addressed Crypto Encapsulation. As CAKE’s instigator helpfully explains, “Yes, yes, it's KACE, but I decided the acronym needed to be encrypted with a letter-swapping cipher”.
Thanks to the miracle of the interweb, naming aficionados can even track the emergence of this silly name from the primordial ooze.

20 Apr 2006