Terminology - certificate or key ?

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Sat Oct 1 19:40:50 CEST 2016


On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 17:30, ineiev at gnu.org said:

> There is one more: "secret key".

Well, I like "secret key" because "secret" stands out when reading
source code or text.  "private" and "public" are two similar and when it
comes to naming variables sk and pk or seckey and pubkey are easier to
distinguish that, well, what?


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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