> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of hughn-imap > Sent: Wednesday, 8 February 2006 12:13 PM > > I cannot think of any clinical situation where non-repudiation of a > message is important. > It is only important for commerce.
The reason that non-repudiation was such a big thing with the then HIC when they started flogging their PKI was that the only purpose in which the HIC was interested in PKI being used for was transmitting Medicare claims. They needed non-repudiability (did I just invent a new word?) so that when they received a million dollars' worth of claims from me in one week, they could take me to court for fraud and 'prove' that the claims came from me, because they had to be signed with my or my receptionist's (yes, that is what they originally expected) individual digital certificate. Now, of course, the HIC (now Medicare Australia) has accepted that it is completely impractical to expect the doctor or his or her receptionist to digitally sign every claim that is transmitted, and we transmit them using only our practice's location key. Oliver Frank, general practitioner 255 North East Road, Hampstead Gardens South Australia 5086 Ph. 08 8261 1355 Fax 08 8266 5149 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
