ElGamal signature scheme

From CryptoDox, The Online Encyclopedia on Cryptography and Information Security

The ElGamal Signature Scheme is a digital signature scheme which is based on the difficulty of computing discrete logarithms. It was described by Taher ElGamal in 1984.

A variant developed by NSA, Digital Signature Algorithm, is a more widely used algorithm compared to the the ElGamal Signature Scheme.

External Links

• ElGamal Signature Scheme at Wikipedia

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