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

[Randall Leeds]

On May 19, 2014 11:38 AM, "Alex" <ralienpp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Since `cryptography` is supposed to be the definitive answer to all
> our cryptographic needs, I would say `omnicrypto`.
>
> The Latin "omnia" means "all" or "every", and "crypto" has to be there
> to make the package easy to find via search engines. An alternative
> could be `pancrypto`, from the Greek "pan" = "all"; though it might be
> interpreted as something related to frying pans :-)

"crypto" is from the Greek so pancrypto would be more consistent.
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