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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source
A very large number created in such a way that it can be shown
to have been done only by somebody in possession of a secret key
and only by processing a document with a particular content. It can
be used for the same purposes as a person's handwritten signature
on a physical document. Something you can do with public key
cryptography. W3C work addresses the digital signature of XML
documents.
- digital signature
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From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source
A value computed with a cryptographic algorithm and
appended
to a data object in such a way that any recipient of the
data can
use the signature to verify the data's origin and
integrity. (See:
data origin authentication service, data integrity
service,
digitized signature, electronic signature, signer.)
[RFC 2828]
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