CDR: Non-Repudiation in the Digital Environment (was Re: First

At 07:37 PM 10/16/00 -0400, Ed Gerck wrote:

Borrowing from a private comment from Bob Jueneman, whatever the technical community decides that non-repudiation means, it probably isn't what the legal community means. So be it.

For instance, the "acceptable" PK key length for non-refutability may have a legal defintion which is either liberal or conservative by e.g. cryptographic standards. Like the FBI's 12 coincidence (of topological feature) points on a fingerprint or N matches of polymorphic genes..