Page 9 PART 1: ORGANIZATION OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCE Section 1: Definitions Article I – 1: For the purpose of this Convention, 1) Cryptology activity means all such activity as seeks to produce, use, import, export or market cryptology tools; 2) Accreditation means formal recognition that the product or evaluated system can offer protection up to a level specified by an accredited body; 3) Enciphering means all techniques consisting in the processing of digital data in an unintelligible format using cryptology tools; 4) Electronic commerce means all economic activity by which a person offers or provides goods and services remotely or by electronic means; 5) Communication with the public by electronic means refers to all circulation to the public or segments of the public, signs, signals, written matter, pictures, sounds or messages of any type without the features of a private correspondence, through an electronic communication procedure; 6) Secret conventions refers to unpublished codes required to implement a cryptology facility or service for the purpose of enciphering or deciphering operations; 7) Electronic mail means any message in the form of text, voice, sound or picture sent by a public communication network, and stored in a server of the network or in a terminal facility belonging to the addressee until it is retrieved; 8) Cryptology means the science of protecting and securing information particularly for the purpose of ensuring confidentiality, authentication, integrity and non-repudiation; 9) Information refers to any element of knowledge likely to be represented with the aid of devices and to be used, conserved, processed or AU Draft0 010111