← Back to context Comment by morsch 11 hours ago That analogy works for encryption but doesn't really work for signature verification 4 comments morsch Reply snmx999 8 hours ago Maybe we should not use analogies? Just call them secret-text and public-text. benjaminjt 7 hours ago Agree. Even just “secret” would be fine for the private key. Maybe pair it with “identity” or “id”. gowld 2 hours ago "public-text" doesn't describe the purpose of a public key. SilasX 2 hours ago Sure, 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.
snmx999 8 hours ago Maybe we should not use analogies? Just call them secret-text and public-text. benjaminjt 7 hours ago Agree. Even just “secret” would be fine for the private key. Maybe pair it with “identity” or “id”. gowld 2 hours ago "public-text" doesn't describe the purpose of a public key.
benjaminjt 7 hours ago Agree. Even just “secret” would be fine for the private key. Maybe pair it with “identity” or “id”.
SilasX 2 hours ago Sure, 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.
Maybe we should not use analogies? Just call them secret-text and public-text.
Agree. Even just “secret” would be fine for the private key. Maybe pair it with “identity” or “id”.
"public-text" doesn't describe the purpose of a public key.
Sure, 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.