Re: [ebxml-msg] Receipt required and Non-Repudiation of receipt when the original user message is signed

From
Theo Kramer <>
Date
2013-07-02T04:31:50+00:00
ID
Thread
Re: [ebxml-msg] Receipt required and Non-Repudiation of receipt when the original user message is signed
Hi Rong

Piim summarises it nicely below - this really means that an AS4 MSH should cater for all these possibilities.

On 01 Jul 2013, at 22:56 , Pim van der Eijk <> wrote:

> 
> Rong,
> 
> Whether or not a user message is (expected to be) signed is
> determined by the Pmode[].Security.Sign parameter.
> 
> Whether or not a receipt is (expected to be) returned is
> determined by the Pmode[].Security.SendReceipt parameter.
> 
> AS4 section 5.1.8 ties the two:  receipts are to be signed
> if and only if the message they are receipts for are
> (expected to be) signed.  Appendix B illustrates this using
> XSLT.
> 
> Issue https://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/EBXMLMSG-15
> suggests that for AS4 the same should be said for errors. 
> 
> The ebMS 3.0 Core specification is missing a mechanism to
> specify expected security of receipts and signals as Pmode
> parameters.
> 
> Pim
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Rong
> Xing
> Sent: 01 July 2013 21:26
> To: Theo Kramer; 
> Subject: [ebxml-msg] Receipt required and Non-Repudiation of
> receipt when the original user message is signed
> 
> Hi Theo and all,
> 
> I have a question about receipt generation. 
> 
> First if the original User Message is digital signed, is the
> receipt required to be generated and sent back by the
> message receiver?
> 
> Secondly, if the receipt is to be generated, does the
> receipt have to be non-repudiation (signed) also in the case
> that the original User Message is signed? Or it can just be
> Reception Awareness?
> 
> The spec seems not mandate these but I would like to ask for
> confirmation.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rong

-- 
Regards
Theo