Re: Certificate suspension

[Eric Norman <ejnorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 26, 2008, at 7:06 PM, Stephen Wilson wrote:

>  I could try to
> deny making the payment, and to bolster my case, I could say to a  
> judge
> "Look Your Honour, there was no 'non-repudiation' in the transaction
> technology, therefore I can repudiate it!".  Fat chance!!  So if the
> absence of an NR bit will not help me win the case, the presence of an
> NR bit cannot be defining of a legal position either.]
...

>  makes it very difficult to take a signature created at some time in
> the past and determine from CRLs and delta CRLs whether or not the
> certificate was valid at that time.

Since we're talking about court cases here, it's not obvious to me that
the court would even care about whether certificates used for signing
were valid at signing time.  The only things a court might care about
is whether the signer had the *intent* to sign, or the signature was
under duress, or something like that.

I have a suspicion, and hope, that these attempts to design "electronic
justice" result in nothing more than discussions on mailing lists.

Eric Norman