diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Version: 1.3
 Authors@R: c(person("Jeroen", "Ooms", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "jeroen@berkeley.edu",
     comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4035-0289")),
     person("Oliver", "Keyes", role = "ctb"))
-Description: Bindings to OpenSSL libssl and libcrypto, plus custom SSH pubkey parsers.
+Description: Bindings to OpenSSL libssl and libcrypto, plus custom SSH key parsers.
     Supports RSA, DSA and EC curves P-256, P-384 and P-521. Cryptographic signatures
     can either be created and verified manually or via x509 certificates. AES can be
     used in cbc, ctr or gcm mode for symmetric encryption; RSA for asymmetric (public
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
 [![CRAN_Status_Badge](http://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/openssl)](http://cran.r-project.org/package=openssl)
 [![CRAN RStudio mirror downloads](http://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/openssl)](http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/openssl/index.html)
 
-> Bindings to OpenSSL libssl and libcrypto, plus custom SSH
-  pubkey parsers. Supports RSA, DSA and NIST curves P-256, P-384 and P-521.
+> Bindings to OpenSSL libssl and libcrypto, plus custom SSH key
+  parsers. Supports RSA, DSA and NIST curves P-256, P-384 and P-521.
   Cryptographic signatures can either be created and verified manually or via x509
   certificates. AES block cipher is used in CBC mode for symmetric encryption; RSA
   for asymmetric (public key) encryption. High-level envelope functions combine