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A Basic Rabin-Williams Digital Signature Specification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thierry Moreau)
Mon Jul 27 17:03:07 2009
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:35:21 -0400
From: Thierry Moreau <thierry.moreau@connotech.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Dear all:
As you know well, there is nothing quite new with the Rabin-Williams
digital signature scheme.
I just formulated a basic specification of it, leaving aside to the
greatest extent anything that would not be rooted in some theoretical
foundation.
The result is at http://www.connotech.com/doc_rw_sign_basic-01.html
Title and abstract:
Scirpo, a Basic Rabin-Williams Digital Signature Specification
The public key cryptography digital signatures are well studied since
the early publications by academics three decades ago. On the deployment
front, many standardization efforts brought the digital signature
techniques at the core of current computer networks. This document
almost completely ignores such standards, and focuses on the theoretical
foundations of the Rabin-Williams digital signature scheme; it merely
describes a simple digital signature scheme including minimal
interoperability provisions. While devoid of any advance to the art or
science of applied cryptography, this document appears original in its
formalization of a signature scheme details with this minimalistic
approach centered on theoretical foundations.
I already suspect that the usefulness of this document is limited, so if
you do find some value in it, please let me know how the document can be
improved for your purpose.
If anyone has other comments, I would like to read them.
Regards,
- Thierry Moreau
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