confidentiality [ noun ]

AI–generated Summary

Rules or promises that limit access or place restrictions on certain information.

Definition

All statements in a conversation are only known by the parties to that conversation. Source: Samuel Smith, at IIW-37, Oct 2023.

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Confidentiality involves a set of rules or a promise usually executed through confidentiality agreements that limits access or places restrictions on certain types of information. More on source Wikipedia

KERI related

The three properties, authenticity, confidentiality, and privacy, inhabit a trade space. ... One can have any two of the three (privacy, authenticity, confidentiality) at the highest level, but not all three. The trilemma insists that one must make a trade-off by prioritizing one or two properties over a third.

The ToIP design goals reflect that trade-off and provide an order of importance. The design goals indicate that one should start with high authenticity, then high confidentiality, and then as high as possible privacy, given there is no trade-off with respect to the other two.

More on Source Samuel Smith SPAC whitepaper.

Also see

• authenticity+

• privacy+

Other glossaries (or mental models)

ToIP definition

confidentiality:

In a communications context, a type of privacy protection in which messages use encryption or other privacy-preserving technologies so that only authorized parties have access.

See also: authenticity, correlation privacy.

Supporting definitions:

NIST-CSRC: Preserving authorized restrictions on information access and disclosure, including means for protecting personal privacy and proprietary information.

Wikipedia: Confidentiality involves a set of rules or a promise usually executed through confidentiality agreements that limits the access or places restrictions on certain types of information.