I don't know PAIN...

[Win Treese]

Ian Grigg wrote:

> What is the source of the acronym PAIN?

For what it's worth, I was using PAIN in presentations for Open Market
in 1995. As far as I can recall, I altered it from CAIN (which Greg Rose
mentioned). I won't claim that anyone else picked it up from me (with a
few exceptions that I know about).

After a while, I stopped using it because it's insufficient, and because
audiences had started to understand enough that one could stop talking
about nonrepudiation. 

Win Treese
treese at acm.org

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