Probably, that's the first result I got when googling "crystallographic primitive", my comment problem makes more sense reading it as "cryptographic primitive" :).
Unfortunately, primitive cells seem mathy enough to be plausibly to cryptography for that to be a confusing mistake (especially given the existence of lattice based cryptography).
Is this the same thing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_cell
(Upvoted and appreciated though. The rest is a lot clearer.)