Digital Signature Schemes : General Framework and Fail-Stop Signatures / by Birgit Pfitzmann.
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TextSeries: Serienbezeichnung | Lecture notes in computer science ; 1100.Publication details: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1996. Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 404 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783540687122; 3540687122Subject(s): Cryptography | Computer science | Computer communication networks | Data encryption (Computer science) | Computer software | Computer science | Computer software | Cryptography | Data encryption (Computer science)Genre/Form: Electronic books. Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification: 004.5 LOC classification: QA76.9.A25 | P444 1996Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
English.