Abstract base class for all implementations of the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) algorithm.

See Also: DSA Members

System.Object
     System.Security.Cryptography.AsymmetricAlgorithm
          System.Security.Cryptography.DSA

Remarks

There is a serious bug in version 1.0 and 1.1 of the .NET framework. The constructor for DSA was declared internal (not protected) this makes it impossible to inherit from the DSA class outside the mscorlib.dll assembly (which is quite limiting).

More information about DSA can be found in NIST FIPS PUB 186-2: Digital Signature Standard (DSS) available at http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips186-2/fips186-2-change1.pdf

Requirements

Namespace: System.Security.Cryptography
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0