Principal Investigator Silvio Micali
Project Website http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cis/signatures/signatures.html
Digital signatures, not unlike the handwritten ones, are used to authenticate information: that is, to securely tie the contents of an electronic document to a signer (more precisely, to the signer's public key). Only the true signer should be able produce valid signatures, and anyone should be able to verify them in order to convince oneself that the signer indeed signed the document. While many digital signature schemes have been proposed and a few are used in practice today, research into designing schemes that are more secure, more efficient, or have additional properties continues.