non repudiation

[Peter Sylvester <Peter.Sylvester@xxxxxxxxxx>]

There is currently a new proposal to change again the
meaning of the key usage bit for non repudiation:


http://www.pki-page.info/download/N12599.doc


My opinion is that changing the name of a bit may
create harm in ASN1 compiler generated structures
used in all kinds of application, examples are
CA software that uses the documented name of bit
may/must be changed to support or not the new
name. if the software is simply compiled with a new
asn1 definition, this may have impacts to
all kinds of scripts, profile definitions etc.

The text itself says that whether or not the bit
is named in the old or new way, the semantics
is as defined in the proposal, in other words,
why changing at all the name of a bit. 

Having that this does not mean that I have any
particular comment concerning the semantics
of that bit.



Peter