Cryptography and Cryptanalysis in Java: Creating and Programming Advanced Algorithms with Java SE 17 LTS and Jakarta EE 10

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S. L. Nita, M. I. MihailescuCryptography and Cryptanalysis in Javahttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8105-5_11

11. Signature Schemes

Stefania Loredana Nita¹   and Marius Iulian Mihailescu¹

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Bucharest, Romania

 

In the real world, when a message needs to be authenticated by individual, it is written on paper, and then the individual signs the message. Therefore, it is known that this specific message belongs to a specific person. In the digital world, things can happen similarly: a piece of data (message) is created by an individual, and then the message is signed digitally with a specific signature by that individual.

Digital signature schemes are public-key ...