Timeline for What is the difference between authenticity and non-repudiation?
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| Jul 15, 2019 at 18:07 | vote | accept | Max | ||
| Aug 31, 2018 at 8:04 | comment | added | Michael Chourdakis | To add to this, digital signatures often have to be issued with the aid of a crypto token to enhance the legal non repudiation requirement. | |
| Sep 1, 2011 at 20:08 | comment | added | D.W. | Contrary to the claims in this answer (and to widespread beliefs of many others as well), digital signatures do not provide non-repudiation in practice. Non-repudiation is a legal problem, not one that can be solved through crypto-mathematics alone. | |
| Aug 31, 2011 at 11:42 | comment | added | Misha | Another example: OTR (cypherpunks.ca/otr) is designed specifically to provide authentication but no repudiation -- deniability is an explicit design goal. | |
| Aug 31, 2011 at 11:26 | comment | added | Max | I guess the bottom line is: you can do authenticity only, but you can't do non-repudiation without authenticity. | |
| Aug 31, 2011 at 11:16 | history | answered | Thomas Pornin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |