10. Privacy and security
The objectives are to ensure :
document integrity (to prevent modification by third parties) ;
a high level of confidentiality for documents (preventing them from being read by a third party);
the identity of the sending and receiving entities.
Appendix H to Recommendation T.30 provides for a registration mode that enables correspondents to authenticate themselves by exchanging their public key.
Registration is a two-step process:
the sending and receiving terminals hash their identity and public key. The resulting "fingerprint" is exchanged without any fax transmission: it's an out-of-band exchange. The public key is sent to the recipient by e-mail, telephone or post;...
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Standards bodies
Union International de Télécommunication (UIT) (International Telecommunication Union) http://www.itu.int/home/index-fr.html
French Standards Agency (AFNOR) http://www.afnor.fr/
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International Standard Institute (ISO)
- Technologies de l'information. Jeux de caractères graphiques codés sur un seul octet. Partie 1 : alphabet latin n 1 - ISO/IEC 8859-1 - 1998
- Technologies de l'information. Représentation codée des images et du son. Compression progressive des images en deux tons - ISO/IEC 11544 - 1993
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