[Cryptography-dev] What's in a name?

Glyph glyph at twistedmatrix.com
Tue May 20 06:48:42 CEST 2014


This is what I've been experimentally shifting my nomenclature to as well.  It sounds reasonably clear, it's unambiguous, and if someone doesn't know what "PyCA" is, they ask - as opposed to thinking they know what "cryptography" is and then getting real confused ;-).

-g

On May 19, 2014, at 8:59 PM, Terry Chia <terrycwk1994 at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 for what Paul said.
> 
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:10 AM, Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I (along with Alex Gaynor) tried out “PyCA cryptography” at the OpenStack
>> Summit and it seemed to work reasonably well. I’m inclined to go with that
>> for now. Do others agree/should we update our docs to use that as
>> disambiguation?
>> 
>> On May 12, 2014 at 9:58:40 PM, Terry Chia (terrycwk1994 at gmail.com) wrote:
>> 
>> I like the cryptography name although I'll be open to changing it. Is
>> there any suggestions at all currently or is this a vague "we should
>> change this so people won't get confused" thing? I like the idea of
>> pushing PyCA more though.
>> 
>> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Glyph <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
>>> On May 12, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Alex Stapleton <alexs at prol.etari.at> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I do quite like the name despite its failings. Maybe we should push the
>>>> PyCA brand more than the individual packages? It would probably make
>>>> searching a bit easier.
>>> 
>>> Would it make sense to then change the headings in the documentation and
>>> such to "PyCA's Cryptography Package"?
>>> 
>>> -g
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