134 No. 4 of 2021] Act No. 15 of 2009 Electronic Communications and Transactions “addressee” means a person who is intended by the originator to receive the electronic communication, but excludes a person acting as an intermediary in respect of that electronic communication; “authenticity” means the assurance that a message, transaction or other exchange of information is from the author or service it purports to be from; “Authority” has the meaning assigned to the word in the Information and Communications Technology Act, 2009; “automated transaction” means an electronic transaction conducted or performed, in whole or in part, by means of electronic communications in which the conduct or electronic communication of one or both parties are not reviewed by a natural person in the ordinary course of that natural person’s business or employment; “automated message system” means a preprogrammed system, or other automated system, used to initiate an action, respond to electronic communications or generate other performances in whole or in part without review or intervention by a party each time an action is initiated or a response is generated by the system; “asymmetric crypto system” means a system capable of generating a secure key pair, consisting of a private key for creating a digital signature, and a public key to verify the digital signature; “caching” means the storage of data in an information system in order to speed up data transmission or processing; “ccTLD” means a country code domain at the top level of the internet’s main system signed according to the two letter codes in the International Standard ISO 3166 or any other standards as may be prescribed by the Minister; “certificate” means a digital record issued by a certification authority for the purpose of supporting digital signatures which purports to confirm the identity or other significant characteristics of the person who holds a particular key pair; “certificate holder” means a natural person in the case of a digital signature, and either a natural or a legal person in the case of a digital seal, to whose data the public key contained in the certificate is linked in the same certificate to whom a certificate is issued under this Act;