āˆŸWhat Is DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm)?

This section describes the DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm) algorithm, which consists of 2 parts: generation of a pair of public key and private key; generation and verification of digital signature.

What Is DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm)? DSA is a United States Federal Government standard for digital signatures. It was proposed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in August 1991 for use in their Digital Signature Standard (DSS), specified in FIPS 186 in 1993.

The first part of the DSA algorithm is the public key and private key generation, which can be described as:

The second part of the DSA algorithm is the signature generation and signature verification, which can be described as:

To generate a message signature, the sender can follow these steps:

To verify a message signature, the receiver of the message and the digital signature can follow these steps:

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Cryptography Terminology

 Cryptography Basic Concepts

 Introduction to AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)

 Introduction to DES Algorithm

 DES Algorithm - Illustrated with Java Programs

 DES Algorithm Java Implementation

 DES Algorithm - Java Implementation in JDK JCE

 DES Encryption Operation Modes

 DES in Stream Cipher Modes

 PHP Implementation of DES - mcrypt

 Blowfish - 8-Byte Block Cipher

 Secret Key Generation and Management

 Cipher - Secret Key Encryption and Decryption

 Introduction of RSA Algorithm

 RSA Implementation using java.math.BigInteger Class

Introduction of DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm)

 What Is a Digital Signature?

What Is DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm)?

 Illustration of DSA Algorithm: p,q=7,3

 Illustration of DSA Algorithm: p,q=23,11

 Illustration of DSA Algorithm with Different k and h

 Proof of DSA Digital Signature Algorithm

 Java Default Implementation of DSA

 Private key and Public Key Pair Generation

 PKCS#8/X.509 Private/Public Encoding Standards

 Cipher - Public Key Encryption and Decryption

 MD5 Mesasge Digest Algorithm

 SHA1 Mesasge Digest Algorithm

 OpenSSL Introduction and Installation

 OpenSSL Generating and Managing RSA Keys

 OpenSSL Managing Certificates

 OpenSSL Generating and Signing CSR

 OpenSSL Validating Certificate Path

 "keytool" and "keystore" from JDK

 "OpenSSL" Signing CSR Generated by "keytool"

 Migrating Keys from "keystore" to "OpenSSL" Key Files

 Certificate X.509 Standard and DER/PEM Formats

 Migrating Keys from "OpenSSL" Key Files to "keystore"

 Using Certificates in IE

 Using Certificates in Google Chrome

 Using Certificates in Firefox

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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