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by dredmorbius 5259 days ago
You're referring to repudiation?

Note that PKI offers two independent options: - Encryption, by any entity (repudiable) against a well-known public key. - Authentication, by a single entity (non-repudiable), using a secret private key.

I get the impression you're trying to say that there are times when a person would want some reasonably plausible claim at repudiation. THis is also available, and can benefit from PKI as well.