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Comment by morsch

6 hours ago

That analogy works for encryption but doesn't really work for signature verification

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snmx999  3 hours ago

Maybe we should not use analogies? Just call them secret-text and public-text.

  • benjaminjt  2 hours ago

    Agree. Even just “secret” would be fine for the private key. Maybe pair it with “identity” or “id”.

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