[saag] Cryptographic suite terminology

Mohit Sethi M <mohit.m.sethi@ericsson.com> Sat, 20 March 2021 07:49 UTC

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Subject: [saag] Cryptographic suite terminology
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Our documents seem to use a mixture of the following terms:

* Cryptosuite - Examples: RFC 6696, 6630, 5296

* Crypto-suite - Examples: RFC 4568, 5072

* Cipher-suite - Examples: RFC 7826, 8548

* Ciphersuite - Examples: RFC 8492, 8489, 8253

* Cipher suite - Examples: RFC 8701, 8618, 8447

* Cryptographic suite - Examples: RFC 5996, 7296, 7815

Note, the examples are non-exhaustive. Some terms are used much more 
often than others. Is there a difference in the meaning of the terms and 
do we want to reduce the amount of terms used in our documents?

--Mohit