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Digital Signature Scheme

A digital signature scheme provides authentication, integrity assurance, and non-repudiation of electronically signed documents. Using public-key cryptography (such as RSA, DSA, or ECDSA), the originator signs a message with a private key in a way that any recipient can verify the signature using the originator's public key, proving that the message was created by the claimed author and has not been tampered with.

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  1. Rivest, R. L., Shamir, A., & Adleman, L. (1978). A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems. Communications of the ACM, 21(2), 120–126. DOI: 10.1145/359340.359342
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  3. Johnson, D., Menezes, A., & Vanstone, S. (2001). The elliptic curve digital signature algorithm (ECDSA). International Journal of Information Security, 1(1), 36–63. DOI: 10.1007/s102070100002

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ScholarGateDigital Signature Scheme (Digital Signature and Authentication Framework). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/en/cryptography/digital-signature-scheme