Jargons of Info Tech industry

[Roedy Green]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 01:33:43 +1000, Steven D'Aprano
<steve at REMOVETHIScyber.com.au> wrote or quoted :

>> ...is pretty confusing - because "public key" is a term with a technical
>> meaning in cryptography - and a public key really *is* public.
>
>The term you want is "wrong", not "confusing".

In encryption the key you give others to encrypt messages to you is
called the "public key".  It is not public in the sense of everyone
knows it.

What term do you suggest?

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