message authentication code
C9659
concept
A message authentication code (MAC) is a short piece of information generated from a message and a secret key that verifies both the message’s integrity and the authenticity of its sender.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| message authentication code canonical | 12 |
| message authentication primitive | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: message authentication code
Generated description
A message authentication code (MAC) is a short piece of information generated from a message and a secret key that verifies both the message’s integrity and the authenticity of its sender.
Instances (13)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Carter–Wegman MACs | — |
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Yoav Nir
surface form:
Poly1305
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— |
| HMAC | — |
| Poly1305 | — |
| PMAC | — |
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PMAC message authentication code
surface form:
PMAC
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— |
| CBC-MAC | — |
| GHASH | message authentication primitive |
| UMAC | — |
| VMAC | — |
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J. Lawrence Carter
surface form:
Carter–Wegman message authentication codes
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— |
| Hash-based Message Authentication Code | — |
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SipHash24
surface form:
SipHash-2-4
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— |