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Certified Signatures

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Number Theory in Science and Communication

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Here we learn how certified signatures can be attached to secret messages in the context of public-key encryption. The degree of certitude (in the sense of avoiding random confusions) achievable by this method, which is based on modular arithmetic, appears to exceed by far that of notarized signatures, fingerprinting or, conceivably, even genetic analysis.

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  1. Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Universität Göttingen, Bürgerstraße 42-44, D-37073, Göttingen, Germany

    Professor Dr. Manfred R. Schroeder (Direktor, Past Director)

  2. Bell Laboratories, Acoustics Speech and Mechanics Research, Murray Hill, NJ, 07974, USA

    Professor Dr. Manfred R. Schroeder (Direktor, Past Director)

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Schroeder, M.R. (1997). Certified Signatures. In: Number Theory in Science and Communication. Springer Series in Information Sciences, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03430-9_12

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