BMJ - PKI and signinng slight confusion

[Brian Gladman]

From: <M.Wells@leeds.ac.uk>
To: <ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 11:00 AM
Subject: BMJ - PKI and signinng slight confusion

[snip]
> > However, it is probably more important to worry about management and
control
> > rather than ownership per se.
> >
> >     Brian
>
> I have often found it helpful to think of the 'owner' of an item of data
> as being the person who can cause its value to alter.  Data items
> come in (at least) two flavours;  those which follow the value of
> something in the real world, and those which define the value of
> something in the real worls.

I agree that this is one side of the equation - the input side - but there
is also the output side to think about - who can read and use the
information. I like to equate ownership with control because this handles
both 'input' and 'output' related issues.

    Brian