I hear scuttlebutt that you got an eyes-only message from High Command over the hyperwave. Asked to rubbish this scurrilous piece of scuttlebutt BT has sheepishly acknowledged that it is true.

What is scuttlebutt slang for?

Scuttlebutt in slang usage means rumor or gossip, deriving from the nautical term for the cask used to serve water (or, later, a water fountain). ... Since sailors exchanged gossip when they gathered at the scuttlebutt for a drink of water, scuttlebutt became Navy slang for gossip or rumours.

How does secure scuttlebutt work?

Secure Scuttlebutt operates as a database of immutable append-only feeds, which allows resilient replication over the Internet, local area networks, and sneakernets. Messages are hashed with SHA256 and verified with an Ed25519 signature; this makes it impossible to forge a message without the private key of the author.