Saturday, November 7, 2015

9.1-9.4 Nov 9

The need for secure signatures makes sense.  It was funny to think of someone literally copying and pasting a signature onto a check.  With the digital age, it makes sense for an increase of security for signatures.

One thing I was confused about in the RSA method was why did Alice send the message as part of her signature? I thought that was the point of encryption to keep the message secret.  Does a hash function not adequately protect signatures or is that only a problem with the primes aren't big enough?  

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