diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c8c9eed1d..7846c777f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ The following emojis are used to highlight certain changes:
   all the required functionality to work the best as possible with IPNS v2 Records. Please
   check the [documentation](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ipfs/boxo/ipns) for more information,
   and follow [ipfs/specs#376](https://github.com/ipfs/specs/issues/376) for related IPIP.
-* The `verifycid` package has been updated with the new HashValidator interface as part of 
+* The `verifycid` package has been updated with the new Allowlist interface as part of 
   reducing globals efforts. Still, existing functions are kept for backwards-compatibility. 
 
 ### Removed
diff --git a/verifcid/validate.go b/verifcid/validate.go
index 104b8d43b..e889f9f72 100644
--- a/verifcid/validate.go
+++ b/verifcid/validate.go
@@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ var goodset = map[uint64]bool{
 }
 
 func IsGoodHash(code uint64) bool {
-	return DefaultHashValidator.IsGoodHash(code)
+	return DefaultAllowlist.IsGoodHash(code)
 }
 
 func ValidateCid(c cid.Cid) error {
-	return DefaultHashValidator.ValidateCid(c)
+	return DefaultAllowlist.ValidateCid(c)
 }
 
-var DefaultHashValidator = NewHashValidator(goodset)
+var DefaultAllowlist = NewAllowlist(goodset)
diff --git a/verifcid/validator.go b/verifcid/validator.go
index 7305f51a5..5849a00e0 100644
--- a/verifcid/validator.go
+++ b/verifcid/validator.go
@@ -5,20 +5,20 @@ import (
 	mh "github.com/multiformats/go-multihash"
 )
 
-type HashValidator interface {
+type Allowlist interface {
 	IsGoodHash(code uint64) bool
 	ValidateCid(c cid.Cid) error
 }
 
-func NewHashValidator(registry map[uint64]bool) HashValidator {
-	return &hashValidator{registry: registry}
+func NewAllowlist(Allowlist map[uint64]bool) Allowlist {
+	return &allowlist{registry: Allowlist}
 }
 
-type hashValidator struct {
+type allowlist struct {
 	registry map[uint64]bool
 }
 
-func (ghr *hashValidator) IsGoodHash(code uint64) bool {
+func (ghr *allowlist) IsGoodHash(code uint64) bool {
 	good, found := ghr.registry[code]
 	if good {
 		return true
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ func (ghr *hashValidator) IsGoodHash(code uint64) bool {
 	return false
 }
 
-func (ghr *hashValidator) ValidateCid(c cid.Cid) error {
+func (ghr *allowlist) ValidateCid(c cid.Cid) error {
 	pref := c.Prefix()
 	if !ghr.IsGoodHash(pref.MhType) {
 		return ErrPossiblyInsecureHashFunction