Non-repudiation (was RE: The PAIN mnemonic)

John Kelsey kelsey.j at ix.netcom.com
Wed Dec 31 18:54:08 EST 2003


  At 06:24 PM 12/23/03 -0700, Richard Johnson wrote:
...
>In my eperience, the terminology has more often been "confidentiality,
>integrity, and authentication".  Call it CIA if you need an acronym easy
>to memorize, if only due to its ironic similarity with that for the name of
>a certain US government agency. :-)

Surely a better government-related TLA for this would be derived from 
Non-changeability, Secrecy, and Authentication....  :)

>Richard

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