The Digital Signature Standard established by NIST is used for electronic document authentication by federal information systems. It is based on a variant of the ElGamal algorithm.

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The Digital Signature Standard established by NIST is used for the electronic document authentication by federal information systems. It is based on a variant of the ElGamal algorithm.

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Explanation:

The Digital Signature Standard (DSS) refers to the Federal Information Processing principles which specified the suite of algorithms that may be used to create or generate digital signatures; this set standard was established by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the year 1994 and was structured based on a variant of the ElGamal algorithm.