At 12:21 PM -0500 on 8/7/00, Edward J. Valauskas wrote:
> Non-Repudiation in the Digital Environment
> by Adrian McCullagh and William Caelli
> http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_8/mccullagh/
...From the Introduction
> What does the term "non-repudiation" really mean? This paper will deal
>with inconsistencies that have arisen between legal and crypto meanings of
>"non-repudiation". In so doing this paper addresses the following issues:
>
>* the legal meaning of "non-repudiation";
>* the crypto meaning of "non-repudiation";
>* the UNCITRAL Model Law and the onus of proof issue under Article 13;
>* the technical vulnerabilities in adopting Article 13; and,
>* Trusted systems as a basis to support the Common Law position.
>
>This paper will show that lawmakers around the world are confused by these
>definitions and are in turn creating fundamental and major problems by not
>addressing the issue of "trust" at the signer's end of electronic
>communication within the electronic commerce environment.
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