From the course: CSSLP Cert Prep: 1 Secure Software Concepts
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Nonrepudiation
From the course: CSSLP Cert Prep: 1 Secure Software Concepts
Nonrepudiation
- [Instructor] It's possible that the transactions processed by your application could have real-world financial and legal implications. Think about it. Do you use an app to sign up for medical benefits? Have you ever used an app to sign a legal contract? And in the hundreds of thousands of email messages you receive each year, how many of them were related to financial transactions? All of these questions point to one larger question. How do you know the person on the other end is really who they say they are? The answer, nonrepudiation controls. The idea behind nonrepudiation is that you have the ability to prove that a subject performed an action on an object. Nonrepudiation controls are most commonly applied to messages where both sides of that exchange want a high level of assurance regarding the other party's identity. But messages aren't the only area where you might want nonrepudiation. Consider usernames and…
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