Jean-François Blanchette
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262017510
- eISBN:
- 9780262301565
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262017510.003.0004
- Subject:
- Information Science, Information Science
This chapter examines the gradual crystallization of a cryptographic model for an electronic equivalent to handwritten signatures. It suggests that market demise of public-key infrastructures ...
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This chapter examines the gradual crystallization of a cryptographic model for an electronic equivalent to handwritten signatures. It suggests that market demise of public-key infrastructures provided a powerful critique of the digital signature model and contends that the difficulties met in translating this model into a commercially successful technology may be attributed to cryptographers’ problematic relationship with the representational nature of models. It also discusses the trade-offs in the mathematization of cryptography.Less
This chapter examines the gradual crystallization of a cryptographic model for an electronic equivalent to handwritten signatures. It suggests that market demise of public-key infrastructures provided a powerful critique of the digital signature model and contends that the difficulties met in translating this model into a commercially successful technology may be attributed to cryptographers’ problematic relationship with the representational nature of models. It also discusses the trade-offs in the mathematization of cryptography.
