<cryptography, standard> The NIST's standard for digital
signatures (authenticating both a message and the signer)
that was first announced in 1991. It is based on an
algorithm using discrete logarithms, which is a variant of
the Elgamal algorithm with Schnorr's improvements. DSS's
security is currently considered very strong - comparable to
RSA. It is estimated that DSS's 1024-bit keys would take
1.4E16 MIPS-years to crack.
(1995-11-16)
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