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Which of the following is the purpose of a digital signature?
Which of the following is the purpose of a digital signature?
- To verify the integrity of the sender's public key
- To ensure the message was sent by the expected party (correct)
- To prevent the receiver from decrypting the message
- To encrypt the message contents
What is the process of digitally signing a message?
What is the process of digitally signing a message?
- Generating a hash of the message and encrypting it with the sender's private key
- Generating a hash of the message and encrypting it with the receiver's private key
- Generating a hash of the message and encrypting it with the sender's public key (correct)
- Generating a hash of the message and encrypting it with the receiver's public key
How does the receiver verify the integrity of a digitally signed message?
How does the receiver verify the integrity of a digitally signed message?
- By hashing the message and comparing it with the original hash (correct)
- By comparing the sender's private key with the receiver's public key
- By encrypting the message with the receiver's public key
- By decrypting the digital signature with the sender's private key
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