The following table provides a summary of the technologies
and industry standards that Digital Signatures supports.
Item
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Supported technology or standards
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One-way hash (for creating document digests)
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SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512
MD5
RIPEMD160
|
Digital signatures
|
PKCS #1 and #7
RSA (up to 4096 bit)
DSA
(up to 4096 bit)
XML signatures
Seed values (enforcement
of certificate usage criteria)
Time stamping (using Time Stamp
Providers)
|
Certificate validity
|
Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL)
Online
Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)
RFC 3280 compliant path
validation
|
The Signature service enforces Federal Information Processing
Standard (FIPS) compliance and uses the RSA BSAFE libraries.
|
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