From 40ca74204064ab7c724e266c79d3acb1bc8028a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Assareh Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 04:50:31 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] replacing "a key usage mode" as it is confusing (#9194) 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. --- website/pages/docs/secrets/transit/index.mdx | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/website/pages/docs/secrets/transit/index.mdx b/website/pages/docs/secrets/transit/index.mdx index 0fae68c818ec..139149930ce7 100644 --- a/website/pages/docs/secrets/transit/index.mdx +++ b/website/pages/docs/secrets/transit/index.mdx @@ -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.