🙅 Rejection or denial 🔍 Exposing falseness 📄 Refusal to honor 💻 Denial of action

repudiation

9.1

Denying that you sent a digital message or made an online payment, causing doubt about its origin

noun
/rɪˌpjuːdiˈeɪʃən/

Specialized

: repudio

To prevent repudiation, the company logs timestamps and uses cryptographic signatures for every message.

Examples

After the dispute, the customer claimed repudiation of the contract despite the digital signatures.
The audit found a risk of repudiation because the system lacked secure record-keeping for user actions.
Many companies face repudiation of their digital signatures.
How can we prevent repudiation in electronic transactions?
In information security, repudiation occurs when a sender denies having sent a message, causing doubts about its authenticity.
The repudiation of the digital signature raised concerns about the legitimacy of the transaction.
When the email was challenged, the recipient's repudiation of sending it led to confusion over who was responsible.

Synonyms

disavowal

vsrepudiation

Formal

2 8.1

A public statement saying you have no knowledge of or connection to something

focuses on denying involvement in electronic messages and creating origin uncertainty

Antonyms

confirmation

Formal

230 2.5

An official act that approves something and makes it valid

acknowledgment

11 3.7

A short sign that shows you notice or thank someone

How Certain

repudiation

Specialized

9.1

denial

61 2.8

dispute

384 3.0

uncertainty

296 4.0

Surface Forms

repudiation singular

repudiations plural

Morphology

repudiation = repudiate (transparent) = repudiate + ion

A straightforward nominalization: the verb 'repudiate' plus the productive suffix '-ion' yields 'the act or result of repudiating'.

Etymology

Repudiation comes from the Latin repudiare, meaning 'to reject' or 'disown'. So in information security a repudiation is when someone denies they sent or took part in a message, in other words they 'disown' the action.