13 Oct
                
                    1992
                
            
            
                13 Oct
                
                '92
                
            
            
            
        
    
                6:49 p.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