Ian Grigg wrote:

What is the source of the acronym PAIN?


Lynn said:



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



I.e., its provenance?


Google shows only a few hits, indicating
it is not widespread.

Probably because non-repudiation is a stupid idea: http://www.apache-ssl.org/tech-legal.pdf.


Cheers,

Ben.

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