Re: Meta-comment: use of "red" / "black" terminology...

[David Waitzman <djw@bbn.com>]

Paul Koning wrote:
> For one not steeped in DoD jargon, "red" and "black" have no intuitive
> meaning.  I usually get the two sides mixed up, because my mind
> interprets "red" as "sensitive" so I think that the red side is the
> unprotected side (where the classified stuff is exposed) rather than
> the protected side.
> 
> It sounds like I'm not the only one who suffers from this.
> "Protected" and "unprotected" have clear meanings and are a lot harder
> to misinterpret.

My input would be CT == Cipher Text for the side where the data is 
enciphered and PT == Plain Text where the data is plain.

Similar to Protected but more history behind it.

-david waitzman