A Digital Signature Based on a Conventional Encryption Function.

Merkle, R. C. (1988). A Digital Signature Based on a Conventional Encryption Function. Advances in Cryptology — CRYPTO '87.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1988

Volume

293

Pages cited

369-378

DOI

10.1007/3-540-48184-2_32

ISBN

9783540187967

DOI registrant

Springer Nature

Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48184-2_32

Cited from

computer_science, engineering_design, information_theory, physics, statistics_experimental_design, systems_cybernetics

Cited by

9 citations across 9 artifacts.

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Primes

• Compression

  • This sourceIntroduces Merkle (hash) trees. DOI (Springer chapter) verified.

• Data Integrity
  • The trust anchor (root hash, signed manifest, certificate, auditor identity, notarized record)

    This sourceIntroduces the hash-tree (Merkle tree) construction underlying content-addressed integrity and tamper-evident logs.

• Discrete vs. Continuous (Quantization)

  • This sourceIntroduces hash-tree (Merkle-tree) signatures over discrete data blocks.

• Measurement Uncertainty and Observational Noise
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
• Multiplexing
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
• Redundancy
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
• Signal Decay and Fadeout
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
• Signature-Borne Provenance
  • Digital and biological provenance. Content-addressable storage uses cryptographic hashes that ride with data and verify identity without a custody chain, and microbial or isotopic signatures in tissue identify habitat-of-origin.

    This sourceFoundational cryptographic-hash work underlying content-addressable storage, where a hash rides with data and verifies identity without a custody chain.

Mechanisms

• Payload Signature or Hash
  • Chaining — independent per-payload digests versus a Merkle

    This sourceIntroduces a tree-structured authentication construction that aggregates many values beneath a common root.

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