LAWS OF BRUNEI
8
CAP. 196
Electronic Transactions
2008 Ed.
“correspond”, in relation to private or public keys, means to
belong to the same key pair;
“data message” means information generated, sent, received or
stored by electronic, optical or similar means, including, but not
limited to, electronic data interchange (EDI), electronic mail,
telegram, telex or telecopy;
“digital signature” means an electronic signature consisting of a
transformation of an electronic record using an asymmetric
cryptosystem and a hash function such that a person having the
initial untransformed electronic record and the signer’s public
key can accurately determine —
(a) whether the transformation was created using the
private key that corresponds to the signer’s public key; and
(b) whether the initial electronic record has been
altered since the transformation was made;
“electronic record” means a record generated, communicated,
received or stored by electronic, magnetic, optical or other means
in an information system or for transmission from one
information system to another;
“electronic signature” means any letters, characters, numbers or
other symbols in digital form attached to or logically associated
with an electronic record, and executed or adopted with the
intention of authenticating or approving the electronic record;
“hash function” means an algorithm mapping or translating one
sequence of bits into another, generally smaller, set (the hash
result) such that —
(a) a record yields the same hash result every time
the algorithm is executed using the same record as input;
(b) it is computationally infeasible that a record can
be derived or reconstituted from the hash result produced
by the algorithm; and
(c) it is computationally infeasible that 2 records can
be found that produce the same hash result using the
algorithm;