Yeah, that always bothered me about the terminology. My fix would be to call it a lock -- everyone understands that you can share those and it doesn't make them any easier to open.

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morsch 3 hours ago | parent [-]

That analogy works for encryption but doesn't really work for signature verification

	▲	snmx999 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe we should not use analogies? Just call them secret-text and public-text.