hello I'm having some confusion about digital signatures, in this web site "http://www.youdzone.com/signature.html"; gives a nice examle of what 's a digital signature? Here what I understood : bob got one private key and a public key, both keys can encrypt any data but only the private key (that is kept secret ) can decrypt the data , right ? now for Bob to create a digital signature , needs to compute a digest message using a hashing function, then encrypt the digest message, and that gives me the digital signature.
now Pat receives a document from Bob with his digital signature, Pat's computes the message digest of the document and DECRYPT the signature with Bob's public key !!! I've understood that's only Bob's private key can decrypt any data , so what's wrong ? please enlighten me Thanks you hicham ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
