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The Information Technology Act 2000 provides the legal framework for electronic transactions by recognizing digital signatures and electronic records. The act defines digital signatures which authenticate electronic records by subscribers who apply for a digital signature certificate from a certifying authority. Hash functions are algorithms that map electronic records to hash results in a way that the original record cannot be derived from the result but two records produce the same result only if identical. Digital signatures provide data origin authentication, message integrity, non-repudiation and are presumed valid unless proven otherwise.

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I.t.act 2008

The Information Technology Act 2000 provides the legal framework for electronic transactions by recognizing digital signatures and electronic records. The act defines digital signatures which authenticate electronic records by subscribers who apply for a digital signature certificate from a certifying authority. Hash functions are algorithms that map electronic records to hash results in a way that the original record cannot be derived from the result but two records produce the same result only if identical. Digital signatures provide data origin authentication, message integrity, non-repudiation and are presumed valid unless proven otherwise.

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Information Technology Act 2000

The information technology act 2000


which received the assent of president of
India on 09/06/2000 for legal recognition
for transactions carried out by means of
electronic data interchange.
 To give legal recognition to digital
signature for authentication under any law
Digital Signature
 It means authentication of any electronic record
by subscriber or procedure [Sec. 2(P)] Any
subscriber may authenticate an electronic record
by affixing his digital signature Sec. 3(1). A
person in whose name the Digital Signature
Certificate is issued on application to certifying
authority is a subscriber sec. 2(zf).
Hash function
Means an algorithm mapping or translations of
one sequence of bits into another, set known as
“hash result”
(a) to derive the original electronic record from
the hash result produced by the algorithm;
(b) that two electronic records can produce the
same hash result using the algorithm Sec 3(2)
Characteristics of digital signature

 Digital signature provides an assurance that a message has in fact


come from its purported sender. It is a proof of origin or data origin
authentication.
 It enable a recipient to verify that a message has not been
intentionally or accidentally altered. It is known as message
integrity.
 No one but the purported sender could have sent the message. It
is known as non repudiation.
 Once a digital signature is created it will be presumed that the
signer signature.
 A digital signature is attached to its message and stored or
transmitted with its message

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