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Digital signatures, continued. Consider the signature scheme of Exercise 1.45.(a) Signing...

Digital signatures, continued. Consider the signature scheme of Exercise 1.45.

(a) Signing involves decryption, and is therefore risky. Show that if Bob agrees to sign anything he is asked to, Eve can take advantage of this and decrypt any message sent by Alice to Bob.


(b) Suppose that Bob is more careful, and refuses to sign messages if their signatures look suspiciously like text. (We assume that a randomly chosen message−that is, a random number in the range {1,...,N − 1}−is very unlikely to look like text.) Describe a way in which Eve can nevertheless still decrypt messages from Alice to Bob, by getting Bob to sign messages whose signatures look random.

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