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Which three security services do digital signatures provide? (Choose three.)
The correct answer is B. integrity C. non-repudiation D. authenticity. Digital signatures cryptographically guarantee integrity, non-repudiation, and authenticity but do not address confidentiality or availability.
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Which three security services do digital signatures provide? (Choose three.)
Options
- Aconfidentiality
- Bintegrity
- Cnon-repudiation
- Dauthenticity
- Eavailability
How the community answered
(62 responses)- A2% (1)
- B94% (58)
- E5% (3)
Why each option
Digital signatures cryptographically guarantee integrity, non-repudiation, and authenticity but do not address confidentiality or availability.
Confidentiality - hiding document content from unauthorized parties - is provided by encryption algorithms, not by digital signatures, which leave the underlying data readable.
Integrity is ensured because any modification to the signed document produces a different hash that will not match the value decrypted from the signature, revealing tampering.
Non-repudiation is guaranteed because the signature is created with the sender's private key - which only they possess - so the sender cannot credibly deny having signed the document.
Authenticity is confirmed because a recipient who successfully verifies the signature using the sender's public key knows the message genuinely originated from the entity holding the corresponding private key.
Availability - ensuring systems and data remain accessible when needed - is addressed by redundancy and fault-tolerance controls, not by the digital signature mechanism.
Concept tested: Security services provided by digital signatures
Source: https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/fips/186/5/final
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