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-Start using the terminology "author" and "reader" proposal
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-Background
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-Figure 1 in doc/design.md refers to
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-	a) the party producing a signed checksum as "Signer", and
-	b) the party verifying a signed checksum as "Verifier".
-
-This is fine in isolation, but less appropriate when looking at it from a
-broader Sigsum perspective.  For example, a "Signer" may also be a "Submitter".
-It seems like we are mixing terminology for roles and concrete actors here.
-
-The above is also ambiguous.  For example, logs and witnesses sign things;
-witnesses and monitors verify things.
-
-Proposal
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-1) Replace "Signer" with "Author" when we are talking about a concrete party.
-
-According to Wikipedia's definition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author), an
-'author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose
-authorship determines responsibility for what was created'.  This seems
-appropriate for us.
-
-The term "author" has been used in academic litterature before us for similar
-purposes:
-	* "In the setting of transparency logging [18] as depicted in Fig. 1, the
-	author generates events intended for recipients that describe data
-	processing by the author as it takes place"
-	* Link to paper: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-45741-3_7
-
-2) Replace "Verifier" with "Reader" when we are talking about a concrete party.
-
-According to Wikipedia's definition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading),
-"[r]eading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of letters, symbols,
-etc., especially by sight or touch".  Although the latter is not a perfect
-description for us, the first part is quite close and we could argue that we are
-in the "etc" category.
-
-The main idea here is that it should feel intuitive that an author has readers.