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Digital Signature Algorithm

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The Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) is a public-key cryptosystem and Federal Information Processing Standard for digital signatures, based on the mathematical concept of modular exponentiation and the discrete logarithm problem. In a digital signature system, there is a keypair involved, consisting of a private and a…

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Islamic State
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The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syr…

Lady Colin Campbell
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Lady Colin Campbell
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Georgia Arianna, Lady Colin Campbell, also known as Lady C, is a British Jamaican author, socialite, and television pers…

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On This Day

10 events
2013
2013_Iranian_embassy_bombing_in_Beirut
A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killed 23 people and injured at least 160 others.
2010
Pike_River_Mine_disaster
The first of four explosions occurred at the Pike River Mine in the West Coast in New Zealand's worst mining disaster in nearly a century.
2005
Iraq_War
Iraq War: A group of United States Marines massacred 25 people in the town of Haditha.
2002
MV_Prestige
The Greek oil tanker Prestige split in two and sank off the coast of Galicia after spilling 420 thousand barrels (17.8 million US gallons) of oil, in the worst environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.
1991
Luis_Miguel
Mexican singer Luis Miguel released the album Romance, which led to a revival of interest in bolero music.
1985
Geneva_Summit_(1985)
The first of five summits (pictured) between Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. president Ronald Reagan began in Geneva.
1969
Santos_FC
Playing for Santos against Vasco da Gama in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian footballer Pelé (pictured) scored his thousandth goal.
1942
World_War_II
World War II: Soviet troops launched Operation Uranus at the Battle of Stalingrad with the goal of encircling Axis forces, turning the tide of the battle in their favour.
1941
World_War_II
World War II: The Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran destroyed each other in the Indian Ocean.
1933
1933_Spanish_general_election
The Union of the Right, a coalition of right-wing parties, won the majority of seats in the 1933 Spanish general election, the first election in the country with suffrage extended to women.

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