Electronic
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and
Communications
Transactions
'' critical database " means a collection of critical data in
electronic form from where it may be accessed, reproduced
or extracted;
" critical database administrator " means the person
responsible for the management and control of a critical
database;
" cryptograph product " means any product that makes use
of cryptographic techniques and is used by a sender or
recipient of data messages for the purposes of e n s u r i n g —
(a) that such data can be accessed only by relevant
persons;
(b) the authenticity of the data;
(c) the integrity of the data; or
(d) t h a t t h e s o u r c e o f t h e d a t a c a n b e c o r r e c t l y
ascertained;
" cryptography provider " means a person w h o provides, or
who proposes to provide, cryptograph services or products
in Zambia;
" cryptograph service " means any service which is provided
to a sender or a recipient of a data message, or to anyone
storing a data message, and which is designed to facilitate
the use of cryptographic techniques for the purpose of
ensuring—
(a) that such data or data message can be accessed, or
can be put, into an intelligible form only by certain
persons;
(b) that the authenticity or integrity ofbuwh d a t a o r dntn
message is capable of being ascertained;
(c) the integrity of the data or data message; or
(d) that the source of the data or data message can be
correctly ascertained;
" cyber " means the use, simulated environment or state of
connection or association with electronic communications
or networks including the internet;
"' cyber inspector " means a person appointed as such under
section ninety-three;
" d a m a g e " m e a n s an i m p a i r m e n t t o t h e i n t e g r i t y or
availability of data, a program, a system orinformation;
" data " means electronic representations of information in
any form;