CHAPTER 17
DIGITAL SIGNATURES AND AUTHENTICATION
TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN users over the Internet require protocols to provide secrecy and authentication of both the sender's identity and the content of the message. We review the elements of digital signatures and message authentication in this chapter, and how cryptographic transformations are able to provide both secrecy and authentication.
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