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Yeah, that always bothered me about the terminology. My fix would be to call it a lock -- everyone understands that you can share those and it doesn't make them
by SilasX 16d ago
Yeah, that always bothered me about the terminology. My fix would be to call it a lock -- everyone understands that you can share those and it doesn't make them any easier to open.
- morsch 16d agoThat analogy works for encryption but doesn't really work for signature verification
- snmx999 16d agoMaybe we should not use analogies? Just call them secret-text and public-text.
- benjaminjt 16d agoAgree. Even just “secret” would be fine for the private key. Maybe pair it with “identity” or “id”.
- gowld 16d ago"public-text" doesn't describe the purpose of a public key.
- SilasX 16d agoSure, but you generally those are separate conversations in which you don't need to appeal to the duality of encryption and authentication or apply the analogy to the latter.