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HMAC

HMAC (Hash-Based Message Authentication Code) is a cryptographic algorithm for authenticating messages using a secret key and a hash function. Standardized in RFC 2104 (1997), HMAC can be combined with any cryptographic hash function (SHA-256, SHA-3, etc.) to create a message authentication code (MAC). HMAC provides both data integrity and authentication, detecting both accidental corruption and deliberate tampering, and is widely used in web security (TLS/SSL), API authentication, and network protocols.

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Hash-Based Message Authentication Code
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / cryptography
  • Krawczyk, H., Bellare, M., & Crechanko, R. (1997). HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication. RFC 2104. · URL
  • Bellare, M., Canetti, R., & Krawczyk, H. (1996). Keying hash functions for message authentication. In Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 1996, LNCS 1109, pp. 1-15. · DOI 10.1007/3-540-68697-5_1
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Same method familyAES (Rijndael)machine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyDifferential Cryptanalysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyRSA Cryptosystemmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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