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Encyclopedia > PMAC (cryptography)

PMAC, which stands for Parallelizable MAC, is a message authentication code algorithm. It was created by Phillip Rogaway (patent pending). A cryptographic message authentication code (MAC) is a short piece of information used to authenticate a message. ... Phillip Rogaway is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis. ...


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. Encryption Decryption In cryptography, a block cipher is a symmetric key cipher which operates on fixed-length groups of bits, termed blocks, with an unvarying transformation. ...


PMAC is similar in functionality to the OMAC algorithm. OMAC (One-key MAC) is a message authentication code constructed from a block cipher much like the PMAC 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. (ps)
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