> 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. ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Inform. Stefan Kelm Security Consultant Secorvo Security Consulting GmbH Albert-Nestler-Strasse 9, D-76131 Karlsruhe Tel. +49 721 6105-461, Fax +49 721 6105-455 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.secorvo.de ------------------------------------------------------- PGP Fingerprint 87AE E858 CCBC C3A2 E633 D139 B0D9 212B --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
