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--- tanszek:oktatas:techcomm:digital_signature [2024/10/07 15:17] – [Requirements for a Digital Signature:] knehez
+++ tanszek:oktatas:techcomm:digital_signature [2024/10/07 15:19] (current) – [Simple Digital Signature Using Direct RSA Application] knehez
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 The steps are as follows:
-. **Sign the document using your private key**.
+  - Sign the document using your private key
+    - In RSA, the roles of the private and public keys can be reversed: you can encrypt with either key, and the other key (and only that key) can decrypt the message.
-. In RSA, the roles of the private and public keys can be reversed: you can encrypt with either key, and the other key (and only that key) can decrypt the message.
+  - If someone encrypts a message with their **private key**, it can be decrypted using their **public key**, thereby verifying the authenticity.
+  - The entire document is encoded as part of the signature (the encoded document itself is the signature).
-. If someone encrypts a message with their **private key**, it can be decrypted using their **public key**, thereby verifying the authenticity.
+  - The signer cannot deny having signed the document because they are the only ones who know the private key necessary to create the signature.
+  - When using the RSA signing method, the document remains unreadable until the signature is verified.
-. The entire document is encoded as part of the signature (the encoded document itself is the signature).
-. The signer cannot deny having signed the document because they are the only ones who know the private key necessary to create the signature.
-. When using the RSA signing method, the document remains unreadable until the signature is verified.
 However, this method can be **inconvenient** in certain cases: