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From: Bogdan Opanchuk <bogdan@opanchuk.net>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 11:58:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add a newsfragment for #2730

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+Simplifies the retrieval protocol (see `#259 <https://github.com/nucypher/nucypher/issues/259>`_ for the discussion). ``PolicyMessageKit`` is renamed to ``MessageKit``. ``Bob.retrieve()`` is renamed to ``retrieve_and_decrypt()``, and its signature is simplified: it only requires the treasure map, Alice's verifying key, and the policy encrypting key. A lower-level ``Bob.retrieve()`` is added that does not decrypt, but only attempts to retrieve the capsule frags.