14 Oct
1992
14 Oct
'92
3:49 a.m.
A signature on a message is dependent on the contents of the message; it is not a free floating bit of information. You can't copy a signature, therefore, without copying the message or find another message that hashes to the same value. This is the design criterion behind one-way functions--that you can't (feasibly) find a message that hashes to a given value. Eric