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What is correct about digital signatures?
The correct answer is A. A digital signature cannot be moved from one signed document to another because it is the hash. A digital signature is cryptographically bound to a specific document's content via hashing, making it impossible to transfer to another document.
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What is correct about digital signatures?
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- AA digital signature cannot be moved from one signed document to another because it is the hash
- BDigital signatures may be used in different documents of the same type.
- CA digital signature cannot be moved from one signed document to another because it is a plain
- DDigital signatures are issued once for each user and can be used everywhere until they expire.
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(16 responses)- A88% (14)
- C6% (1)
- D6% (1)
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A digital signature is cryptographically bound to a specific document's content via hashing, making it impossible to transfer to another document.
A digital signature is produced by hashing the document's content and encrypting that hash with the signer's private key. Because the hash is derived from the exact bytes of that specific document, any different document will produce a different hash, rendering a transplanted signature cryptographically invalid. This binding ensures integrity and non-repudiation for that document only.
Digital signatures cannot be reused across documents of the same type because each document produces a unique hash value regardless of document category.
The reason a digital signature is non-transferable is that it is an encrypted hash of the document content, not because it is plain text.
Digital signatures are not universally reusable tokens - each signing operation produces a unique output tied to the specific document being signed, not a credential valid for any document.
Concept tested: Digital signature non-transferability via document hash binding
Source: https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/fips/186/5/final
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