Monday, March 5, 2012

Know what is Digital Signature

A digital signature is an electronic signature that can be used to authenticate the identity of the signer of a document. A digital certificate contains the digital signature of the certificate-issuing authority so that anyone can verify that the certificate is real. Digital signature schemes normally give two algorithms, one for signing which involves the user's secret or private key, and one for verifying signatures which involves the user's public key. The output of the signature process is called the "Digital Signature".


A digital signature typically contains the: Owner's public key, the Owner's name, Expiration date of the public key, the Name of the issuer (the CA that issued the Digital ID), Serial number of the digital signature, and the digital signature of the issuer. 


This signature cannot be forged and it asserts that a named person wrote or otherwise agreed to the document to which the signature is attached.


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