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NAME
       DSA - Digital Signature Algorithm

DESCRIPTION
       DSA  is  the Digital Signature Algorithm specified in(1,8) [DSS], a standard
       for public-key based digital signatures from NIST,  the  U.S.  National
       Institute for Standards and Technology.  DSA employs SHA(5).

       For a description of DSS, its history(1,3,n,1 builtins) and security, see [AC2].

REFERENCES
       [DSS]  National  Institute  of  standards and Technology, NIST FIPS PUB
       186, Digital Signature Standard, U.S. Department of Commerce, May 1994.

       [AC2]  Bruce  Schneier, Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms and
       Source Code in(1,8) C, second edition, John Wiley and Sons, 1996.

AUTHOR
       This man-page was written by  J.H.M.  Dassen  (Ray)  <jdassen@wi.Leide-
       nUniv.nl>.

SEE ALSO
       lsh_keygen(1)



LSH                              JANUARY 1999                           DSA(5)