Your computer system is a participant in an asymmetric cryptography system. You've crafted a message to be sent to another user.

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Your computer system is a participant in an asymmetric cryptography system. You've crafted a message to be sent to another user.

Before transmission, you hash the message and then encrypt the hash using your private key. You then attach this encrypted hash to your message as a digital signature before sending it to the other user. Which protection does the private key-signing activity of this process provide

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Anna [14] · Answer 1 · 2022-10-26T04:50:02+03:00

Answer: integrity

Explanation:

Hashing refers to changing a string of characters into shorter fixed-length value which represents the original string. Hashing is faster to find items in the database.

Based on the information given, the protection that he private key-signing activity of this process provide us integrity.