Digital Signatures for Patient Documents Delivered via the WWW
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چکیده
Background. The World Wide Web (WWW) is increasingly being used as a delivery platform for biomedical documents. Methods to implement data integrity policies are needed to ensure the correctness of information contained in these documents. Such policies are intended to ensure that data remain consistent with its source and to allow the identification of errors, duplications, omissions, and intentional alterations. Secure methods for authentication and validation of documents are particularly important. Digital signatures can be used to accomplish these tasks, and have been successfully applied in electronic mail and traditional networked computing environments. It is important to demonstrate the practical application of digital signatures in WWWbased medical document delivery systems.
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