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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2012
Certicom Corp., Mississauga, CA;
Scott Alexander Vanstone, Campbellville, CA;
Donald B. Johnson, Manassas, VA (US);
Minghua Qu, Mississauga, CA;
Certicom Corp., Mississauga, CA;
Abstract
A method for creating and authenticating a digital signature is provided, including selecting a first session parameter k and generating a first short term public key derived from the session parameter k, computing a first signature component r derived from a first mathematical function using the short term public key, selecting a second session parameter t and computing a second signature component s derived from a second mathematical function using the second session parameter t and without using an inverse operation, computing a third signature component using the first and second session parameters and sending the signature components (s, r, c) as a masked digital signature to a receiver computer system. In the receiver computer system, a recovered second signature component s' is computed by combining a third signature component with the second signature component to derive signature components (s′, r) as an unmasked digital signature.