Digital Signatures & Security Services | Cryptography Lecture 18

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Course Overview
Digital Signatures Intro
Signature Fundamentals
Security Services Defined
Non-Repudiation Need
Asymmetric Solution
RSA Signature Scheme
RSA Signature Properties
Performance Tricks

Course Overview

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    Recap of completed topics: symmetric and asymmetric cryptography.

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    Transition to protocols and applications using crypto primitives.

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    Course structure: last third dedicated to building systems.

Foundational understanding of asymmetric (public-key) cryptography and how public/private key pairs operate.
Mathematical principles behind the RSA cryptosystem, including modular arithmetic and prime factorization.
The concept and properties of cryptographic hash functions (such as SHA-256) and how they generate message digests.
Distinction between symmetric encryption (confidentiality) and asymmetric systems.
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and the role of Certificate Authorities (CAs) in managing and validating digital certificates.
Alternative and modern digital signature algorithms, such as DSA and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA).
Real-world security protocols that implement digital signatures, including TLS/SSL, SSH, and secure email (PGP/MIME).
Advanced signature concepts such as blind signatures, group signatures, and aggregate signatures used in blockchain and privacy-preserving protocols.
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Digital signatures provide electronic authentication by using asymmetric cryptography where the sender signs a message with their private key and recipients verify it with the sender's public key, achieving four security services: confidentiality (keeping data secret), message authentication (verifying sender identity), message integrity (detecting modifications), and non-repudiation (preventing denial of authorship); unlike symmetric cryptography where both parties share keys and cannot prove authorship, asymmetric cryptography enables one party to sign while others can only verify, solving the repudiation problem.