CAN/CSA-ISO/IEC 14888-2-02 (R2006)

This National Standard of Canada is equivalent to International Standard ISO/IEC 14834:1996. 1. Scope ISO/IEC 14888 specifies a variety of digital signature mechanisms with appendix for messages of arbitrary length and is applicable in schemes providing entity authentication, data origin authentication, non-repudiation, and integrity of data. This part of ISO/IEC 14888 specifies the general structure and the fundamental procedures which constitute the signature and verification processes of an identity-based digital signature mechanism with appendix for messages of arbitrary length.