QUESTION: Dan recently received a digitally signed message and when he attempted to verify the digital signature received an error that the hash values did not match. What can Dan conclude from this error?
- The message was accidentally corrupted in transit
- The message was altered by a malicious individual after being sent
- There was an error creating the digital signature
- Dan can’t draw one of these specific conclusions
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