[14007] in Cypherpunks
Digital signature standard
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradley W. Dolan)
Sat May 21 10:01:02 1994
Date: 21 May 94 09:43:39 EDT
From: "Bradley W. Dolan" <71431.2564@CompuServe.COM>
To: <cypherpunks@toad.com>
AP reported on 5/20/94:
>The federal government will begin using computer-generated
>signatures to verify the identities of people submitting bids,
>contracts and other information electronically. [...]
> It is up to people outside the government to decide whether
>they want to use the standard, which produces the electronic signature.
>Government agencies that currently use some other method of electronic
>verification will have to switch to the new standard on Dec. 1, said
>Miles Smid, manager of security and technology for the institutes.
>[...]
>
>[The standard employs] a 320-bit number that makes up the
>electronic signature. The government computer then compares
>the signature against the person's public key, which would be stored in
>a government database.
Brad bdolan@well.sf.ca.us
