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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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Digital Signature and Authentication Framework
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / cryptography
  • 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
  • Krawczyk, H., Bellare, M., & Herbst, R. (1997). HMAC: Keyed-hashing for message authentication. RFC 2104. · URL
  • 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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Related methods

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Same method familyDiffie-Hellman Key Exchangemachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyRSA Cryptosystem Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familySHA Hash Functionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyTLS Protocol Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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Sources

3 recorded citations, copied from the method source record.

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