Digital Signature Standard

{{Short description|Information security standard}}

The Digital Signature Standard (DSS) is a Federal Information Processing Standard specifying a suite of algorithms that can be used to generate digital signatures established by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 1994. Five revisions to the initial specification have been released: FIPS {{not a typo|186-1}} in 1998,{{cite web |url= http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips1861.pdf |title= FIPS PUB 186-1: Digital Signature Standard (DSS), 1998-12-15 |website= csrc.nist.gov |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20131226115544/http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips1861.pdf |archivedate= 2013-12-26}} FIPS {{not a typo|186-2}} in 2000,{{cite web|url= http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/archive/fips186-2/fips186-2.pdf|title= FIPS PUB 186-2: Digital Signature Standard (DSS), 2000-01-27|website= csrc.nist.gov}} FIPS {{not a typo|186-3}} in 2009,{{cite web|url= http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips186-3/fips_186-3.pdf|title= FIPS PUB 186-3: Digital Signature Standard (DSS), June 2009|website= csrc.nist.gov}} FIPS {{not a typo|186-4}} in 2013,{{cite web|url= http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.186-4.pdf|title= FIPS PUB 186-4: Digital Signature Standard (DSS), 2013-07-19|website= csrc.nist.gov}} and FIPS {{not a typo|186-5}} in 2023.{{cite web|url= https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.186-5.pdf|title= FIPS PUB 186-5: Digital Signature Standard (DSS), 2023-02-03|website= csrc.nist.gov}}