TRUSTED DOCUMENT SIGNING BASED ON USE OF BIOMETRIC (FACE) KEYS
Ahmed B. Elmadani · International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics · 2012
A mathematical scheme for demonstrating the authenticity of a digital message or document is known as Digital Signature (DS) [1]. DS convince a recipient that a document was created by a known sender. DSs are commonly used for software distribution, financial transactions, and in other cases to avoid forgery and tampering [2]. Digitally signed messages may be anything that can be represented as a bit or a string, examples include electronic mail, contracts, or a message sent via some other cryptographic protocol [3]. Hash function is used in creating and verifying a DS. Hash function is an algorithm which creates a digital representation of document. Few hashing algorithms have been developed such Secure Hash Algorithm – 128 (SHA-1) and Message Digest Version 5 (MD5) to be used in ecommerce [4]. SHA-1 is a secured hash algorithm – 160. Produces 160-bit hash value. It is designed by NIST & NSA in 1993 revised 1995 as SHA – 160, US standard for use with digital signature algorithm (DSA) signature scheme. SHA256, SHA-384, and SHA-512. Designed for compatibility with increased security provided by the advanced encryption standard (AES) cipher[3].