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What is a digital signature?
How does digital signature enhance the authenticity and integrity of data?

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A digital signature is essentially a way to ensure that an electronic document ( e-mail, text file, spreadsheet etc. is authentic in the sense that you know who created the document and you know that it has not been altered in any way since it was created.

Digital signatures rely on encryption to ensure the authenticity of the document. Encryption is the process of taking all the data that one ...

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