LEGALLY RESILIENT SIGNATURES: A MIDDLE-AGE APPROACH TO A DIGITAL AGE PROBLEM By

To Paul, Sue, and Nathaniel, my loving and supportive family. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would first like to thank Dr. Mike Burmester, my major professor, for his continued guidance and support on this thesis. He challenged me to think through the problems on my own, but also offered assistance when I would go astray. The knowledge and experience that I have gained from him is immense, and I could not have accomplished this thesis without him. Next I would thank my committee members Dr. Breno de Mederios, Dr. Lois Hawkes, and Dr. Alec Yasinsac. Dr. Breno has an inspiration with much of the cryptography and implementation of this thesis. He is one of the most brilliant professors that I have ever had the privilege to study under. Dr. Hawkes has been very supportive from the start and has a gift for understanding the student’s needs. Dr. Yasinsac was a great source of writing and grammatica