312-50V11 · Question #34
What two conditions must a digital signature meet?
The correct answer is B. Has to be unforgeable, and has to be authentic. A digital signature must be unforgeable to prevent impersonation and authentic to verify the signer's identity - these are the two foundational properties of any valid digital signature scheme.
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What two conditions must a digital signature meet?
Options
- AHas to be legible and neat.
- BHas to be unforgeable, and has to be authentic.
- CMust be unique and have special characters.
- DHas to be the same number of characters as a physical signature and must be unique.
How the community answered
(24 responses)- A8% (2)
- B88% (21)
- C4% (1)
Why each option
A digital signature must be unforgeable to prevent impersonation and authentic to verify the signer's identity - these are the two foundational properties of any valid digital signature scheme.
Legibility and neatness are physical handwriting qualities and have no meaning in the context of cryptographic digital signatures.
A digital signature must be unforgeable, meaning no other party can produce a valid signature that appears to come from the legitimate signer, and it must be authentic, meaning the recipient can cryptographically verify that the signature was produced by the claimed sender. These two properties rely on asymmetric cryptography where only the private key holder can sign, while anyone with the public key can verify. Together they provide non-repudiation and integrity assurance.
Uniqueness and special characters describe password complexity policies, not the cryptographic requirements of a digital signature.
Character length relative to a physical signature is a nonsensical metric - digital signatures are fixed-length hash outputs determined by the algorithm, not the physical signature.
Concept tested: Digital signature properties - unforgeability and authenticity
Source: https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/fips/186/5/final
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