Discuss The Relative Merits

Discuss The Relative Merits

There are three standardized approaches to digital signatures: RSAPSS, ECDSA, and the original DSA developed by NIST. One advantage of RSA-PSS is that RSA-based signature schemes are already widely used in commercial applications. One advantage of DSA is that it is the original scheme approved by NIST and is implemented in numerous packages, especially within the US government and government contractors. One advantage of ECDSA is efficiency.

Discuss the relative merits of the three approaches for a new commercial product.

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Digital Signatures
Digital signatures are replacing the traditional signatures for data authentication and enhance the speed of signing documents. Companies such as DocuSign offer digital signatures, which have various relative merits (“Advantages of digital signatures”, 2019). Digital signatures provide additional security by using permanent and unique fingerprints on the documents.

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