better wording for description?
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ousia commented
@lvh,
I have just read when paging through (emphasis is mine):
Like TLS, OpenPGP is a hybrid cryptosystem. Users have key pairs consisting of a public key and a private key. Public key algorithms are used both for signing and encryption. Symmetric key algorithms are used to encrypt the message body; the symmetric key itself is protected using public-key encryption. This also makes it easy to encrypt a message for multiple recipients: only the secret key has to be encrypted multiple times.
I wonder whether this would avoid the potential ambiguity:
only the symmetric key has to be encrypted multiple times.
Many thanks for your help.
lvh commented
Sure, yep, that does seem a little better :) Patch welcome!