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16 Footnotes

  1. S.E.E. page 5.

  2. It is proposed that adoption of the NZ Government PKI be made mandatory for all public service departments, Crown Entities, State Owned Enterprises, Crown Owned Companies, and other government organisations that fall within the commonly accepted definition of the NZ State sector. Local Government organisations will be strongly encouraged to adopt the NZ Government PKI.

  3. SENSITIVE is a proposed new marking for non-national security material where inappropriate release would have a substantial impact on the effective administration of government or the health and well being of an individual or company.

  4. The term interim is used throughout this document to describe the period up until the availability of a formal PKI for inter-agency use.

  5. Refer Security in Government Departments.

  6. Wherever we discuss checking for certificate revocation, we also intend the guideline to apply to certificate suspension.

  7. The Treasury's CFISnet system is a secure web-based system to facilitate the annual budget process, to monitor financial actuals, and to automate various other processes related to Crown financial management. The system is used by several users in all government agencies, and by most Treasury analysts.

  8. "Key escrow": A key recovery technique for storing knowledge of a cryptographic key or parts thereof in the custody of one or more third parties called "escrow agents", so that the key can be recovered and used in specified circumstances.

  9. social engineering is a euphemism for non-technical or low-technology means - such as lies, impersonation, tricks, bribes, blackmail, and threats - used to attack information systems.

  10. The term "munging" refers to the actions taken to transform the data or data structures from conformance with one standard format to another.

  11. OID or object identifier An official, globally unique name for a thing, written as a sequence of integers (which are formed and assigned as defined in the ASN.1 standard) and used to reference the thing in abstract specifications and during negotiation of security services in a protocol.


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