DSA - Digital Signature Algorithm
DSA is the Digital Signature Algorithm specified in
[DSS], a standard for
public-key based digital signatures from NIST, the U.S. National Institute for
Standards and Technology. DSA employs
SHA(5).
For a description of DSS, its history and security, see
[AC2].
[DSS] National Institute of standards and Technology, NIST FIPS PUB 186,
Digital Signature Standard, U.S. Department of Commerce, May 1994.
[AC2] Bruce Schneier,
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms and
Source Code in C, second edition, John Wiley and Sons, 1996.
This man-page was written by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
<
[email protected]>.
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