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== 2. Background ==
== 2. Background ==
The United States Department of Justice’s Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative defines:
* ''non-repudiation'' -- a technique used to ensure that someone performing an action on a computer cannot falsely deny that they performed that action. Non-repudiation provides undeniable proof that a user took a specific action<sup>[10]</sup>.
With software systems that manage protected, sensitive data (including EHR systems), a more-specific definition of non-repudiation is needed. We further define the following term based on the definition of non-repudiation above:
* ''user-based non-repudiation'' – a techniques used to ensure that an authenticated user accountholder performing an action within a software system cannot falsely deny that they performed that action.


== 3. Related Work ==
== 3. Related Work ==