What are Digital Signatures? Compute and Verify a Digital Signature Using Java

submited by krishnas on Wed Aug 15th, 2007

Digital Signature is one of the most widely misunderstood terms in the area of computer security. People often either confuse it with scanning a manually signed paper, or just know that somehow something happens mysteriously and we can obtain a digital signature! Let us understand what digital signatures are, and how to work with them in Java; in the course of this article.

Topic: java