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Alice and Bob

Situation Alice sends her messages to Bob with a signature generated using some known signature-creation algorithm implemented as genSignature() below. Bob verifies that the message is sent by Alice itself by generating the signature for the message by a password known to only both of them, and verifying that both signatures match. By some means we are able to eavesdrop on their conversation and

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