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Introduction to Cryptography with Open-Source Software
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Introduction to Cryptography with Open-Source Software

by Alasdair McAndrew
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
461 pages
12h 1m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Introduction to Cryptography with Open-Source Software
Chapter 7
Digital signatures
As mentioned in Chapter 1, along with encryption of messages and other data ,
digital signatures are fundamental to much modern security. This chapter
introduces:
The basic requirements of a digital signatur e .
Digital signature schemes based on the RSA, Rabin and El Gamal cr yp-
tosystems.
The Digital Signature Standard.
Security issues with the above schemes.
7.1 Introduction
Digital signatures are one of the most important and practical uses of
modern cryptography. So much so, that digital signature s have been described
as the “killer app” of cryptography. As well as the obvious application of
signing doc uments, ...
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