ISO/IEC 14888-1
Information technology - Security techniques - Digital signatures with appendix - Part 1: General
| Organization: | ISO |
| Publication Date: | 15 April 2008 |
| Status: | active |
| Page Count: | 18 |
| ICS Code (Information coding): | 35.040 |
scope:
ISO/IEC 14888 specifies several digital signature mechanisms with appendix for messages of arbitrary length.
This part of ISO/IEC 14888 contains general principles and requirements for digital signatures with appendix. It also contains definitions and symbols which are used in all parts of ISO/IEC 14888.
Various means are available to obtain a reliable copy of the public verification key, e.g., a public key certificate. Techniques for managing keys and certificates are outside the scope of ISO/IEC 14888.
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