The PAIN mnemonic

[Carl Ellison]

> A security taxonomy, PAIN:
> * privacy (aka thinks like encryption)
> * authentication (origin)
> * integrity (contents)
> * non-repudiation

Sorry, Lynn, but I don't buy this.

It's missing replay prevention (freshness)

and it included non-repudiation which is an unachievable, nonsense concept.

If you want to keep the mnemonic, you can change the 4th one to
"non-replay".

 - Carl

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