This isn't a new name for anything, the OpenSSL docs explicitly refer to 
this as the "traditional" format quotes and all. I might be able to improve 
the wording a bit though.


On 28 April 2014 20:55:50 Jean-Paul Calderone <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> > +.. hazmat::
> > +
> > +Key Serialization
> > +=================
> > +
> > +.. currentmodule:: cryptography.hazmat.primitives.serialization
> > +
> > +There are several common schemes for serializing asymmetric private and 
> public
> > +keys to bytes. They generally support encryption of private keys and 
> additional
> > +key metadata.
> > +
> > +
> > +Traditional OpenSSL Format
> > +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > +
> > +The "traditional" PKCS #1 based serialization format used by OpenSSL.
>
> I think it would help to be more explicit in this documentation that the 
> name "traditional" as used here is a new invention to unambiguously refer 
> to this serialization format.  As is, it reads as if there is an 
> alternative to the traditional format that I might be interested in.
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