Re: Last Call: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and CRL Profile to Proposed Standard

Paul,

Regarding key-usage and the latest debate it seams obvious that it is
very hard to exactly define the difference between digital signatures
and non-repudiation.

the "denial of some actions" seams very unclear as a definition since
this may be valid for most digital signature based services.

Another proposed distinguishing property for non-repudiation is "the signing 
end entity's conscious acceptance of the signed message context", which I 
believe is the true reason for defining an exclusive non repudiation key.

This definition makes the distinction much more clear and also sends
a necessary signal to restrict client behavior regarding the private
non-repudiation key.

Does it make sense to add this property to the definition?

/Stefan


At 02:10 PM 8/7/98 -0700, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
>This got posted to IETF-Announce but, as you can see, they still don't have
>the current address for this list.
>
>To: IETF-Announce: ; 
>Cc: ietf-pkix@xxxxxxxxxx 
>From: The IESG
><iesg-secretary@xxxxxxxx> 
>SUBJECT: Last Call: Internet X.509 Public Key
>Infrastructure
>   Certificate and CRL Profile to Proposed Standard 
>Reply-to:
>iesg@xxxxxxxx 
>Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 08:39:28 -0400 
>Sender:
>scoya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>
>
>The IESG has received a request from the Public-Key Infrastructure 
>(X.509) Working Group to consider Internet X.509 Public Key 
>Infrastructure Certificate and CRL Profile 
><draft-ietf-pkix-ipki-part1-09.txt> as a Proposed Standard.
>
>The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits 
>final comments on this action. Please send any comments to the 
>iesg@xxxxxxxx or ietf@xxxxxxxx mailing lists by August 21, 1998.
>
>Files can be obtained via 
>ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pkix-ipki-part1-09.txt
>
>
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