Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Generation of a digital signature
- Patent Title (中): 生成数字签名
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Application No.: US14491206Application Date: 2014-09-19
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Publication No.: US09306752B2Publication Date: 2016-04-05
- Inventor: John Owlett , George M. Thompson , Keith A. Walton
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts, LLP
- Agent John Pivnichny
- Main IPC: H04L9/32
- IPC: H04L9/32 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
A method and system for generating a digital signature of a data item. A unique condition digest of at least two condition digests is iteratively processed in each iteration of a loop for a sufficient number of iterations to process all of the condition digests. Each iteration includes concatenating a reference digest with the unique condition digest of the iteration to generate a concatenand and hashing the concatenand to generate a hashed concatenand serving as the reference digest for the next iteration. Each unique condition digest is a different condition digest in each iteration. The regenerated reference digest of the last iteration is a last digest which is encrypted to generate a digital signature block that represents the data item and at least two conditions specified for the digital signature. The digital signature block includes the digital signature. The encrypting includes signing the last digest with the digital signature.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150058636A1 GENERATION OF A DIGITAL SIGNATURE Public/Granted day:2015-02-26
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