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digital signatures

digital signatures is the plural of digital signature.

Meaning of digital signature

Noun

digital signature (plural digital signatures)

  1. A signature within a mathematical scheme for verifying the authenticity of digital messages or documents.
    • We define an electronic coin as a chain of digital signatures. Each owner transfers the coin to the next by digitally signing a hash of the previous transaction and the public key of the next owner and adding these to the end of the coin.2008, Satoshi Nakamoto, “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

Questions about digital signatures

What is digital signatures the plural of?
Digital signatures is the plural of digital signature.

Words near digital signatures in the dictionary

  1. digital shadows
  2. digital sharecropping
  3. digital signal
  4. digital signals
  5. digital signature
  6. digital signatures
  7. digital single-lens reflex
  8. digital single-lens reflex camera
  9. digital single-lens reflex cameras
  10. digital single-lens reflexes
  11. digital slow motion

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