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Digital signature

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An asymmetric key operation where the private key is used to digitally sign data and the public key is used to verify the signature. Digital signatures provide authenticity protection, integrity protection, and non-repudiation.

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Senses

SANS Glossary of Security Terms

A digital signature is a hash of a message that uniquely identifies the sender of the message and proves the message hasn't changed since transmission.

National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon

A value computed with a cryptographic process using a private key and then appended to a data object, thereby digitally signing the data.

ISACA Cybersecurity Glossary

A piece of information, a digitized form of signature, that provides sender authenticity, message integrity and non-repudiation A digital signature is generated using the sender’s private key or applying a one-way hash function.

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2sense 2 pending review

A nonforgeable transformation of data that allows the proof of the source (with non-repudiation) and the verification of the integrity of that data.

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2sense 3 pending review

The result of a cryptographic transformation of data which, when properly implemented, provides the services of: 1. origin authentication, 2. data integrity, and 3. signer non-repudiation.

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2sense 4 pending review

The result of a cryptographic transformation of data that, when properly implemented, provides origin authentication, data integrity, and signatory non-repudiation.

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2sense 5 pending review

Cryptographic process used to assure data object originator authenticity, data integrity, and time stamping for prevention of replay.

NIST SP 800-171r3attested usage pack match

No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.

Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

Regulated80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

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Variants

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