A Web-Based Tutorial on Digital Signatures

📄 Project Abstract

After having studied a module on eBusiness and having briefly touched on some of the security issues, I became intrigued by security measures, especially digital signatures. Digital signatures represent the next step in a growing world of uncertainty where certain individuals or groups are dishonest and corrupt, whose intention may be to modify data without authorisation or to impersonate someone else. The School of Computing at The University of Leeds briefly explains digital signatures, but does not go into any great detail about this new up-and-coming technology. As digital signatures become more widespread, there will be a need for people to understand the technologies involved in the implementation of digital signatures. This project seeks to explain the operation of digital signatures via the construction of a robust, fully working implementation of a teaching aid. There are no teaching aids at present on digital signatures. The implementation of the teaching aid will hopefully b...