Contents: 1. Requirements on Digital Signature Scheme 1.1. Brief Survey of Application 1.2. Legal Significance of Signature 1.3. Consequences of the Legal Significances 1.4. Secure Hardware Support 1.5. Relation to Other Types of Schemes 1.6. A Variant: Invisible Signature 2. History of Digital Signature Sechemes 2.1. Classical Cryptography 2.2. Information-Theoritically Secure Sy…
Requirements on digital signature schemes History of digital signature schemes Information-theoretic security for signers: Introduction Terminology Properties of digital signature schemes Overview of existing schemes with other than ordinary security Conventional definitions of fail-stop signature schemes and general reductions Building blocks Constructions for one message block Signin…