Not to get too picky, but "census" is a Latin 4th declension noun whose plural in the mother tongue is still... "census." I know it's sounds dopey. It ain't "censi." We would most likely be forgiven by the word naziis if we used "censuses."
I have a Ph.D. in Engineering, an MBA, a MS in Math and I don't pretend to really understand what happens under the hood of my car. This digital signature stuff is important -- and for that reason I am reading everything I can about it. People should learn that crypto today is a far cry from the Enigma days. Read up on Diffie/Hellman and R,S and A.
Today's crypto is heavy duty stuff. The greatest weaknesses of digital signatures will not be from the hard crypto itself, but from shoddy protocols and weak implementations.
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I have a Ph.D. in Engineering, an MBA, a MS in Math and I don't pretend to really understand what happens under the hood of my car. This digital signature stuff is important -- and for that reason I am reading everything I can about it. People should learn that crypto today is a far cry from the Enigma days. Read up on Diffie/Hellman and R,S and A.
Today's crypto is heavy duty stuff. The greatest weaknesses of digital signatures will not be from the hard crypto itself, but from shoddy protocols and weak implementations.