Terminology - certificate or key ?

John Lane gnupg at jelmail.com
Fri Sep 30 11:38:07 CEST 2016


> I have to admit to being extremely annoyed with the state of the language we use.  OpenPGP is hard enough to learn without having to be confused by multiple names for the same algorithms, confusing usage of "certificate", "key", and "Key", and every other bit of linguistic tomfoolery we seem to have accumulated.

I agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment. Thanks for confirming what I
hoped was the case.




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