Questions tagged [non-repudiation]

Non-repudiation is the ability to prevent an identified individual from repudiating a specific action or communication associated with that individual.

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Is "non-repudiation" automatically proven, given the other three tenets of info security?

Just to say it, the four tenets are: Confidentiality - The message the recipient gets can be proven not to have been read by anyone else since it was encoded. Integrity - The message the recipient gets can be proven not to have been changed since…
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Difference between non-repudiation and plausible deniability

I've read in some books the 'goals of information security', which includes non-repudiation. My understanding of non-repudiation is that if Alice sends a message to Bob, Bob is not only convinced that the message came from Alice but he can also…
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Does Non Repudiation offer proof of receipt ?

I understand that non repudiation intends to provide a mechanism that reliably proves that the sender of a message cannot deny sending the message. But does it also provide similar mechanisms to ensure the recipient of the message cannot deny…
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Is there a way to prove authorship in a shared repository?

Say, we have a number of people working on some kind of collaborative effort (such as a research paper or a software project) that is committed into a shared repository. However, a certain subset of these people are also conspiring against the rest…
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Non-Repudiation that can Never be Proven

I understand that non-repudiation is based upon public key cryptography and the principle of only the sender knowing their own private key. However, what is a condition, if any, of non-repudiation that can never be proven through digital analysis?…
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