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Signatures: RSA compared to ECDSA
I'm signing very small messages using RSA, and the signature and public key are added to every message, which requires a lot of space compared to the actual content.
I'm considering switching to ...
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Why are MACs in general deterministic, whereas digital signature constructions are randomized?
The fact is I'm not quite sure if my question statement is true, however all the MAC constructions I know of (e.g. CBC-MAC, CMAC, HMAC) are deterministic, whereas many constructions for digital ...
