A soon to be adopted standard for generating a non-repudiatable electronic code linking the user to a specific transaction. The standard specifies a government developed algorithm call the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA).
Digital signature algorithm developed by the NSA and endorsed by NIST.
Standard proposed by NIST for all Federal departments and agencies for the protection of unclassified information. Uses a public-key to verify to a recipient the integrity of data and identity of the sender of the data.
DSS is the U.S. government's standard for authenticating a digital signature.
A standard for digital signing, including the Digital Signing Algorithm, approved by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, defined in NIST FIPS PUB 186, "Digital Signature Standard," published May, 1994 by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce.
(DSS) A standard that specifies the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) for its signature algorithm and SHA-1 as its message hash algorithm. DSA is a public key cipher that is only used to generate digital signatures and cannot be used for data encryption. DSS is specified by PROV_DSS, PROV_DSS_DH, and PROV_FORTEZZA provider types.
A National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST) standard for digital signatures, used to authenticate both a message and the signer. DSS has a security level comparable to RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) cryptography, having 1,024-bit keys.
Data encryption technique for electronic documents proposed by National Institute of Standards; when sender uses recipient's published public key to encrypt a document, the receiver's private key is the only known means of decoding the document.
A digital signature algorithm developed by the National Security Agency (see NSA).
A U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) for digital signatures, using DSA and SHA-1.
DSS is the Digital Signature Standard, which specifies a Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA), and is part of the U.S. government's Capstone project. It was selected by NIST and NSA to be the digital authentication standard of the U.S. government, but has not yet been officially adopted. See also: Capstone, Clipper, RSA, Skipjack.
A standard that uses the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) for its signature algorithm and SHA-1 as its message hash algorithm. DSA is a public-key cipher that is used only to generate digital signatures and cannot be used for data encryption. See also: digital signature; Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-1)