What Are Digital Signatures?
A digital signature does not involve taking your handwritten signature and scanning it into your computer; however, it is similar. A digital signature is unique to you, like a fingerprint or a handwritten signature is. A digital signature is a seal put on a digital piece of information (such as a file or an e-mail message). As an example, a digital signature can be attached to an electronic transaction (such as an e-mail) to let the recipient of the transaction know with a high degree of certainty that it was really you who sent it. Let's take a look at what makes digital signatures work.
Digital signatures are a byproduct of public key cryptography. We have been discussing public key cryptography as it relates to ...
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