Glossary of Data Communications Terms

Courtesy Enterprise-Wide Computing, Inc.

Term: digital signature
Definition: a number depending on all the bits of a message and also on a secret key. Its correctness can be verified by using a public key (unlike and authenticator which needs a secret key for its verification).

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