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Please avoid use of the term "key" without explicit qualifiers

The OpenPGP ecosystem has many different things that are called "keys". There are at least:

  • transferable public key (a.k.a. "certificate")
  • transferable secret key
  • public key packet
  • subkey packet
  • cryptographic key material (without any packet framing)

I think this draft will be easier to read if everywhere it says "Key" with no qualifier, it uses either an explicitly qualified variant of "key", or an entirely different word.

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