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Recipient vs. receiver inconsistency #219

Closed davidben closed 3 years ago

davidben commented 3 years ago

The draft uses "recipient" everywhere except for one place in section 3:

(skX, pkX): A Key Encapsulation Mechanism (KEM) key pair used in role X, where X is one of S, R, or E as sender, receiver, and ephemeral, respectively; skX is the private key and pkX is the public key.

I probably would have gone with "receiver" as the analog of sender, though I don't know what the existing discussion or precedents are. (I don't believe either term appears in KDF labels, so this doesn't change the primitive itself.)

(CC @agl)

chris-wood commented 3 years ago

Thanks, @davidben! We'll fix this in the next version.