6.4.2 Signing Overview


  Signing overview


The signing is done using ECDSA: Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm


For further reading on this algorithm, please access these external links:


oDigital Signature Standard (DSS) (PDF) - Download PDF here

oThe Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) Don Johnson and Alfred Menezes, Scott Vanstone - Certicom Research, Canada Dept. of Combinatorics & Optimization, University of Waterloo, Canada - Download PDF here

oAccredited Standards Committee X9, American National Standard X9.62-2005, Public Key Cryptography for the Financial Services Industry, The Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA), November 16, 2005.

oCerticom Research, Standards for efficient cryptography, SEC 1: Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Version 2.0, May 21, 2009.

oLópez, J. and Dahab, R. An Overview of Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Technical Report IC-00-10, State University of Campinas, 2000.

oDaniel J. Bernstein, Pippenger's exponentiation algorithm, 2002.

oDaniel R. L. Brown, Generic Groups, Collision Resistance, and ECDSA, Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 35, 119–152, 2005. ePrint version

oIan F. Blake, Gadiel Seroussi, and Nigel Smart, editors, Advances in Elliptic Curve Cryptography, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 317, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

oHankerson, D.; Vanstone, S.; Menezes, A. (2004). Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography. Springer Professional Computing. New York: Springer. doi:10.1007/b97644. ISBN 0-387-95273-X.