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Record Nr.

UNISA996465295103316

Autore

Pfitzmann Birgit

Titolo

Digital Signature Schemes [[electronic resource] ] : General Framework and Fail-Stop Signatures / / by Birgit Pfitzmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1996

ISBN

3-540-68712-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 1996.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 404 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 1100

Disciplina

005.8

Soggetti

Data structures (Computer science)

Data encryption (Computer science)

Algorithms

Computer communication systems

Data Storage Representation

Cryptology

Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity

Computer Communication Networks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Requirements on digital signature schemes -- History of digital signature schemes -- Information-theoretic security for signers: Introduction -- Terminology -- Properties of digital signature schemes -- Overview of existing schemes with other than ordinary security -- Conventional definitions of fail-stop signature schemes and general reductions -- Building blocks -- Constructions for one message block -- Signing many long messages -- Lower bounds.

Sommario/riassunto

This book, based on the author's Ph.D. thesis, was selected during the 1995 GI Doctoral Dissertation Competition as the winning thesis in the foundations-of-informatics track. Securing integrity for digital communications in the age of global electronic information exchange and electronic commerce is vital to democratic societies and a central technical challenge for cryptologists. As core contribution to advancing the state of the art, the author develops the new class of digital fail-stop signatures. This monograph is self-contained regarding the



historical background and cryptographic primitives used. For the first time, a general and sophisticated framework is introduced in which innovative fail-stop signatures are systematically presented and evaluated, from theoretical foundations to engineering aspects.