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

[David Reid]

ITYM pankryptos.


On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Randall Leeds <randall.leeds at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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