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Why does ECIES use "Key Encapsulation"? Does it?

Now I've always thought that "encapsulation" is almost synonymous with encryption. You protect a pre-established value using a mechanism. This is not how the term has ever been used in the ...
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Why does ECIES use "Key Encapsulation"? Does it?

It seems clear from the responses that KEM means that some secret is being encapsulated / protected by the algorithm. How this happens within the algorithm itself seems irrelevant. In [the standard &...
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Hybrid Approaches: ECIES-Kyber768

Is this approach a good idea? I believe your encryption method is to use Kyber to generate a shared secret (using the decryptor's public key), and send that shared secret through a KDF, and then use ...
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