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Re (security fix): A Basic Rabin-Williams Digital Signature Specification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thierry Moreau)
Wed Aug 19 21:56:04 2009
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:56:37 -0400
From: Thierry Moreau <thierry.moreau@connotech.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <4A6DBB29.3030303@connotech.com>
Dear all:
A revised document has been posted at
http://www.connotech.com/doc_rw_sign_basic-02.html, including a fix for
an elementary security issue (and two other items, see document revision
history).
I received some, but not much, feedback (positive) on the first version.
Regards,
- Thierry
On Jul 27, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Thierry Moreau wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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