I get your point, but I think using private-key is right.
From A Cipherpunk's Manifesto by Eric Hughes (1993):
Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.
Yes but... I can be wrong, I am not english native,... but I think privacy and private are not related , they seem to be but are indeed different and unrelated concepts, this is, a private key is not "something for keeping privacy" but "something for keeping confidentiality or secrets"...
Not sure at all about these...
From A Cipherpunk's Manifesto by Eric Hughes (1993):
Yes but... I can be wrong, I am not english native,... but I think privacy and private are not related , they seem to be but are indeed different and unrelated concepts, this is, a private key is not "something for keeping privacy" but "something for keeping confidentiality or secrets"...
Not sure at all about these...
Private is an adjective, privacy is a noun, but they refer to the same thing.
A private matter is one that requires privacy.
A secret matter is one that requires secrecy.