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Digital Signature Algorithm
A subset of the Digital Signature Standard that represents a specific public key algorithm that is only used for digital signatures.
The secret key used in DSA operates on the message hash generated by SHA-1; to verify a signature, one recomputes the hash of the message, uses the public key to decrypt the signature and then compares the results.
This algorithm is obsolete.
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Data Security