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Public key

Public key, means the ley of a key pair used to verify a digital signature and listed in the Digital Signature Certificate. [Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), s. 2(1) (zd)]...

Key pair

Key pair, In an asymmetric crypts system, means a private key and its mathematically related public key, which are so related that the public key can verify a digital signature created by the private key. [Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), s. 2(1) (x)]...

Verify

Verify, in relation to a digital signature, electronic record or public key, with its grammatical variations and cognate expression means to determine whether:(a) the initial electronic record was affixed with the digital signature by the use of private key corresponding to the public key of the subscriber;(b) the initial electronic record is retained intact or has been altered since such electronic record was so affixed with the digital signature. [Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), s. 2(1) (zh)]1. To prove to be true, to confirm or establish the truth or truthfulness of; to authentically2. To confirm or substantiate by oath or affidavit; to swear to the truth of, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Means to ascertain, to confirm, to test the truth or accuracy of, and to prove to be true. That the authority must append his verification to the declaration made by candidate on solemn affirmation, Nanak Singh v. Deputy Commissioner Amritsar, (1968) 70 Punj LR 1095....

Asymmetric crypto system

Asymmetric crypto system, means a system of a secure key pair consisting of a private key for creating a digital signature and a public key to verify the digital signature. [Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), s. 2 (1) (f)]...

Humanscape

Humanscape, the entire gamut of humanity or a broad portrait of the human race. 'The circumstances of the case are typical and solutions to the key questions emerging from the matrix of facts are capable of universal application, especially in the trid world humanscape of silent subjection of groups of people to squalor and of public bodies habituated to deleterious inaction.' [Ratlam Municipality v. Vardichand, AIR 1980 SC 1622 (1624), para 2]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...

Preamble

Preamble, in the British Parliament, a Preamble is not often incorporated now in a public Bill, however, it appears in a Bill of great Constitutional importance or in a Bill to give effect to international conventions, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1977, p. 462.Preamble, introduction, preface; also the beginning of an Act of Parliament, etc., serving to portray the interests of its framers, and the mischiefs to be remedied; a good mean to find out the meaning of the statute, and as it were a key to open the understanding thereof, 1 Inst. 79 a; and see the Sussex Peerage Case, (1844) 11 Cl&F 143; Winn v. Mossman, (1869) LR 4 Ex 299; Maxwell on Statutes; Hardcastle on Statutes; Mew's Digest, tit. 'Statute'; the effect of the cases being that as a general rule the preamble is to be resorted to only in case of ambiguity in the statute itself.Preamble, which in early (English) Acts (see, e.g., 4 & 5 W. & M. c. 18, the Act of Settlement, and the Irish Act, 1 Car. 1, c. 1), ...

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