diff -r d07aa956024a -r 030c4fbc13d7 cryptomgmtlibs/securitydocs/doxygen_docs/Security_intro_signatures.dox --- a/cryptomgmtlibs/securitydocs/doxygen_docs/Security_intro_signatures.dox Thu Apr 01 00:24:41 2010 +0300 +++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ -/** -@page Security_signatures Digital signatures - -A digital signature is used to verify that a message (or data) actually came from the sender (the one who signed the -message) and that it has not been tampered with. - -A signature is formed by producing a fixed-length digest (@ref hash) of the message using a hash algorithm, which is then -encrypted using the sender's private key. This signature and the message are then sent to the recipient. - -The receiver can then verify the signature as follows: a @ref hash is produced of the sender's message (using the hashing -algorithm sent with the signature); also, using the sender's public key, their signature is decrypted into a @ref hash. -These two hashes are compared: if they are the same, it is more or less certain that the public key used for the -@ref decryption corresponds to the private key used to create the signature, thus data integrity is validated. - - -*/ \ No newline at end of file