Re: [cryptography] Favourite signature scheme?

2011-01-27 Thread Rose, Greg
Some people have been referring to the Rabin signature algorithm as either Rabin-Miller or R-W (I assume meaning Rabin-Williams). Credit where credit is due: the scheme is entirely due to Michael Rabin according to my understanding. His name gets tied to the others in other contexts such as

[cryptography] Favourite signature scheme?

2011-01-26 Thread Paul Crowley
If you were choosing a signature scheme for a new application and you were not constrained by existing standards or code, what would you choose? Desirable properties might include: * small signatures * fast signature generation * fast signature verification * conservative choice of hard