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replacing "a key usage mode" as it is confusing (#9194)
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Since the context of this page is transit and encryption keys, the use of the word "key" to mean effectively common seems ill advised. Proposing an alternative wording.
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assareh committed Jun 11, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ derivation function but also by deterministically deriving a nonce. Because
these properties differ for any combination of plaintext and ciphertext over a
keyspace the size of 2^256, the risk of nonce reuse is near zero.

This has many practical uses. A key usage mode is to allow values to be stored
This has many practical uses. One common usage mode is to allow values to be stored
encrypted in a database, but with limited lookup/query support, so that rows
with the same value for a specific field can be returned from a query.

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