Produced by applying the sender's private key to a hash of a message. Anyone holding the matching public key can then confirm both the sender and that nothing was altered, although the content itself stays readable.
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- DKIM
A standard for authenticating email: the sending domain adds a digital signature over parts of each message, letting the recipient confirm nothing was changed along the way.
- SMB signing
Adding a digital signature to SMB packets to stop them being altered or relayed. Windows Server 2025 insists on it for outgoing connections out of the box.