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Digital Signing with Java

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Digital Signature Source: Wikipedia In today's post, we are going to see how easy it is to do digital signing using Java programming language. Java has provided libraries that you can use out of the box to produce digital signature. Let's get started. A little bit of theory For those of you who do not know yet about digital signature, this is basically a process that ensures that the content that you sent has not been altered in any way. Digital signature is one of the most important things to do in this digital world. Without it, it will be hard to verify data integrity. Relationship with Hashing At this stage, one must have noticed that to check data integrity, you can actually use a hashing algorithm. For example, when you download a file from the internet, they usually provide the hash (be it MD5 or SHA1 or higher) for you to check the integrity of the downloaded file. Although this is true, digital signing actually provides you with more than just a dat