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QUESTION 17
GS3
5 marks

What is a digital signature? What does its authentication mean? Give various salient built-in features of a digital signature.

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What the examiner wants

Explain/Analyse the exact proposition in the PYQ — “What is a digital signature? What does its authentication mean? Give various salient built-in features of a digital signature.” — using concept/chronology or mechanism, evidence on both sides where relevant, and a conclusion that answers the directive rather than merely describing Digital Signatures.

Explain/AnalyseAnswer exactly what the question asks.

Demand-wise check

  1. 1For the prompt cue ‘What is a digital signature? What does its authentication mean? Give various salient built-in features of a digital signature.’, directly answer: What is a digital signature?≈20 words
  2. 2For the prompt cue ‘What is a digital signature? What does its authentication mean? Give various salient built-in features of a digital signature.’, directly answer: What does its authentication mean?≈20 words
  3. 3For the prompt cue ‘What is a digital signature? What does its authentication mean? Give various salient built-in features of a digital signature.’, directly answer: Give various salient built-in features of a digital signature≈20 words

Open in about 20 words and close in about 20.

Answer plan

Define/contextualise Digital SignaturesExplain mechanism/chronologyQuestion-specific evidence/examplesImplicationsConcise conclusion

Where marks usually go

  • For the prompt cue ‘What is a digital signature? What does its authentication mean? Give various salient built-in features of a digital sign’, avoid a generic note on Digital Signatures; answer the actual wording/directive and the Digital Signatures proposition
  • For the prompt cue ‘What is a digital signature? What does its authentication mean? Give various salient built-in features of a digital sign’, do not add examples around Digital Signatures unless they prove, qualify or rebut the proposition asked

Value addition

  • 3-box flow: concept/context → core argument/evidence → implication/way forward
    → Draw it in the body, next to the point it supports.

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