PMAC (cryptography)
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PMAC, which stands for Parallelizable MAC, is a message authentication code
algorithm. It was created by Phillip Rogaway
(patent pending).
PMAC is a method of taking a block cipher
and creating an efficient message authentication code that is provably reducible in security to the underlying block cipher.
PMAC is similar in functionality to the OMAC algorithm.
Message authentication code
In cryptography, a message authentication code is a short piece of information used to authenticate a message.A MAC algorithm, sometimes called a keyed hash function, accepts as input a secret key and an arbitrary-length message to be authenticated, and outputs a MAC...
algorithm. It was created by Phillip Rogaway
Phillip Rogaway
Phillip Rogaway is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis. He graduated with an BA in computer science from UC Berkeley and completed his PhD in cryptography at MIT, in the Theory of Computation group. He has taught at UC Davis since 1994.Dr...
(patent pending).
PMAC is a method of taking a block cipher
Block cipher
In cryptography, a block cipher is a symmetric key cipher operating on fixed-length groups of bits, called blocks, with an unvarying transformation. A block cipher encryption algorithm might take a 128-bit block of plaintext as input, and output a corresponding 128-bit block of ciphertext...
and creating an efficient message authentication code that is provably reducible in security to the underlying block cipher.
PMAC is similar in functionality to the OMAC algorithm.
External links
- Phil Rogaway's page on PMAC
- Changhoon Lee, Jongsung Kim, Jaechul Sung, Seokhie Hong, Sangjin Lee. "Forgery and Key Recovery Attacks on PMAC and Mitchell's TMAC Variant", 2006. http://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/publications/article-779.ps (ps)]