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                            ISO/IEC 14888-3:2016 specifies digital signature mechanisms with appendix whose security is based on the discrete logarithm problem.ISO/IEC 14888-3:2016 provides-      a general description of a digital signature with appendix mechanism, and-      a variety of mechanisms that provide digital signatures with appendix.For each mechanism, this part of ISO/IEC 14888 specifies-      the process of generating a pair of keys,-      the process of producing signatures, and-      the process of verifying signatures.