Non-repudiation (was RE: The PAIN mnemonic)
Stefan Kelm
kelm at secorvo.de
Tue Dec 23 04:44:03 EST 2003
> Let's just leave the term "non-repudiation" to be used by people who don't
> understand security, but rather mouth things they've read in books that
> others claim are authoritative. There are lots of those books listing
> "non-repudiation" as a feature of public key cryptography, for example,
> and many listing it as an essential security characteristic. All of that
> is wrong, of course, but it's a test for the reader to see through it.
Ah. That's why they're trying to rename the corresponding keyUsage bit
to "contentCommitment" then:
http://www.pki-page.info/download/N12599.doc
:-)
Cheers,
Stefan.
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