digital signature

digital signature definition - telecom
A security mechanism issued by a certificate authority (CA) and appended to a digital certificate in order to allow a receiver to verify that a message has not been altered since its creation by a sender. See also CA and digital certificate.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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