| Non-repudiation applied to digital signatures implies that the definition | states that only one person possibly had possession of the private signing | key and was conscious about the fact that it was used to sign something. There is absolutely *no* cryptographic or mathematical content to this definition! It could as well apply to key locks, to signatures on paper, or whatever. It's in no way a property of a cryptographic system, or of *any* system. Nor, as written, is there even any possible set of evidence that could be adduced to prove this: After all, someone might, just by chance, have guessed the private key.
Granted, there are significant issues with non-repudiation - so significant that it probably isn't a very useful concept. But it there *is* some cryptographic content behind it! Otherwise, what are we to make, for example, of the various "evolving signature key" schemes that detect stolen keys? -- Jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]