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A cryptography message authentication code (MAC) is a short piece of information used to authenticate a message. A MAC algorithm accepts as input a secret key and an arbitrary-length message to be authenticated, and outputs a MAC (sometimes known as a tag). The MAC value protects both a message's integrity as well as its Authentication, by allowing verifiers (who also possess the secret key) to detect any changes to the message content. A message integrity code (MIC) is another name for a MAC that is usually used when the acronym "MAC" is defined to mean something else, like when it means Media Access Control in networking contexts.

While MAC functions are similar to cryptographic hash functions, they possess different security requirements. To be considered secure, a MAC function must resist existential forgery under chosen-plaintext attacks. This means that even if an attacker has access to an oracle which possesses the secret key and generates MACs for messages of the attacker's choosing, he can "never" guess the MAC for any message that he has not yet asked the oracle about. (Here "never" means, "not without doing an infeasible amount of computation").

MACs differ from digital signatures, as MAC values are both generated and verified using the same secret key. This implies that the sender and receiver of a message must agree on keys before initiating communications, as is the case with symmetric encryption. For the same reason, MACs do not provide the property of non-repudiation offered by signatures: any user who can verify a MAC is also capable of generating MACs for other messages. In contrast, a digital signature is generated using the private key of a key pair, which is asymmetric encryption. Since this private key is only accessible to its holder, a digital signature proves that a document was signed by none other than that holder. Thus, digital signatures do offer non-repudiation.

MAC algorithms can be constructed from other cryptographic primitives, such as cryptographic hash functions (as in the case of HMAC) or from block cipher algorithms (OMAC (cryptography), CBC-MAC and PMAC (cryptography)).

Example

See also

• Integrity check value
• Data Authentication Algorithm, a DES-based MAC algorithm from American National Standards Institute
• UMAC
• HMAC
• CMAC
• Poly1305-AES
• Poly1305-AED

External links

• RSA FAQ's entry on MACs
• Ron Rivest lecture on MACs

A cryptography message authentication code (MAC) is a short piece of information used to authenticate a message. A MAC algorithm accepts as input a secret key and an arbitrary-length message to be authenticated, and outputs a MAC (sometimes known as a tag). The MAC value protects both a message's integrity as well as its Authentication, by allowing verifiers (who also possess the secret key) to detect any changes to the message content. A message integrity code (MIC) is another name for a MAC that is usually used when the acronym "MAC" is defined to mean something else, like when it means Media Access Control in networking contexts.

While MAC functions are similar to cryptographic hash functions, they possess different security requirements. To be considered secure, a MAC function must resist existential forgery under chosen-plaintext attacks. This means that even if an attacker has access to an oracle which possesses the secret key and generates MACs for messages of the attacker's choosing, he can "never" guess the MAC for any message that he has not yet asked the oracle about. (Here "never" means, "not without doing an infeasible amount of computation").

MACs differ from digital signatures, as MAC values are both generated and verified using the same secret key. This implies that the sender and receiver of a message must agree on keys before initiating communications, as is the case with symmetric encryption. For the same reason, MACs do not provide the property of non-repudiation offered by signatures: any user who can verify a MAC is also capable of generating MACs for other messages. In contrast, a digital signature is generated using the private key of a key pair, which is asymmetric encryption. Since this private key is only accessible to its holder, a digital signature proves that a document was signed by none other than that holder. Thus, digital signatures do offer non-repudiation.

MAC algorithms can be constructed from other cryptographic primitives, such as cryptographic hash functions (as in the case of HMAC) or from block cipher algorithms (OMAC (cryptography), CBC-MAC and PMAC (cryptography)).

Example

See also

• Integrity check value
• Data Authentication Algorithm, a DES-based MAC algorithm from American National Standards Institute
• UMAC
• HMAC
• CMAC
• Poly1305-AES
• Poly1305-AED

External links

• RSA FAQ's entry on MACs
• Ron Rivest lecture on MACs

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