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AIMD-94-167R 1 (1994-08-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackpw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States GealAotng Office54 Accounting and Information B-258013 August 11, 1994 Anthony R. Torrice Chief Disbursing Officer Financial Management Service Department of the Treasury Dear Mr. Torrice: In your letter of May 5, 1994, you requested our views on whether the Department of the Treasury could rely on a combination of a secure hash value and message authentication code to perform the electronic signature requirements for a certifying officer. As discussed below, we believe such a concept can provide an acceptable method for a certifying officer to certify payments. Based on the information contained in your letter and discussions with your staff, Treasury is proposing to have an agency generate a hash value on its payment information. This hash value will be computed using the algorithm outlined in the Secure Hash Standard' (Federal Information Processing Standard 180). The bash value will then be electronically signed by the certifying officer using a message authentication code generated in accordance with the procedures in your current Electronic Certification System. We sanctioned your current system in November 1988. As we understand your proposal, Treasury will then receive the payment information, hash value, and the certifying officer's electronic signature from the agency. Treasury will recompute the hash value and ensure that it agrees with the value 'The Secure Hash Standard provides an algorithm designed so that it is computationally infeasible to (1) find a message which corresponds to a given hash value or (2) find two different messages which will produce the same hash value. GAO/AIMD-94-167R Treasury Electronic Signature Concept

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