The Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) is a cryptographic protocol for generating digital signatures, which are used to verify the authenticity and integrity of digital messages and documents. DSA is based on the mathematical properties of modular exponentiation and discrete logarithm problems.
Principle of DSA:
Key Generation: The first step involves generating a public-private key pair. A large prime number q and a generator g (which is a primitive root modulo a larger prime p) are chosen. The private key x is a random number less than q, and the public key y is computed as y = g^x mod p.
Signature Generation: To sign a message m, a hash function H(m) is applied to produce a fixed-size message digest. A random number k (less than q) is chosen, and two values r and s are computed:
r = (g^k mod p) mod qs = (k^(-1) * (H(m) + x*r)) mod q(r, s).Signature Verification: To verify the signature (r, s) on a message m, the verifier computes H(m) and checks if:
w = s^(-1) mod qu1 = (H(m) * w) mod qu2 = (r * w) mod qv = ((g^u1 * y^u2) mod p) mod qv equals r, the signature is considered valid.Example:
Imagine Alice wants to send a message to Bob securely using DSA. She generates a key pair and shares the public key with Bob. When sending a message, Alice hashes the message and uses her private key to generate a signature (r, s). Bob receives the message and signature, then uses Alice's public key to verify the signature by following the verification steps. If the verification is successful, Bob can be confident that the message was indeed sent by Alice and has not been tampered with.
Cloud Service Recommendation:
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