Digital Signatures in Cryptography: Types, Applications, Processby@casey-crane
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Digital Signatures in Cryptography: Types, Applications, Process

by Casey Crane7mJune 30th, 2020
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A digital signature isn’t the same thing as an electronic signature. It’s a way for you to authenticate yourself to another party and show that your item in question is legitimate and unaltered. Digital signatures work hand-in-hand with hash functions, or what are known more simply as hashes. There are three primary uses for digital signatures:Authentication, non-repudiation and message integrity. Digital Signatures offer Assurance and Authenticity to a trusted third party such as a certificate authority (CA)

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