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Digital signatures
One advantage of public-key encryption is that the recipient of successfully decrypted message knows that it was sent by the owner of the private key. This is known as authentication. However, encrypting messages with a private key is a relatively slow process particularly if the message is a long one. Instead a system of digital signatures is used. A digital signature is prepared by first passing the message through a one-way cryptographic function to calculate the message digest. This digest is much smaller than the original message and can be quickly encrypted with the private key to produce a signature which is then added to the original message. |
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The recipient of the digital signature can be sure that the message really came from the sender. And, because changing even one character in the message changes the message digest in an unpredictable way, the recipient can be sure that the message was not changed after the message digest was generated. Authentication can be further strengthened by the use of digital certificates. | |||||||
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