Differentiation of sig and confidentiality keys

Campaign Against Censorship of the Internet cacib at liberty.org.uk
Mon, 27 Apr 1998 20:31:41 +0100


Not the most important issue but compare
"
In addition there is now a clear policy differentiation
 between digital signatures and encryption; another
 concern of industry during the consultation process.
"  

from "SECURE ELECTRONIC COMMERCE STATEMENT", para 7

with

"it was wrong to make the assumption that users would normally have
separate key pairs for authentication and confidentiality"
from  "Summary of Responses; Annex C", para 12
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