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
Yoav Nir
surface form: Poly1305
HMAC
Poly1305
PMAC
PMAC message authentication code
surface form: PMAC
CBC-MAC
GHASH message authentication primitive
UMAC
VMAC
J. Lawrence Carter
surface form: Carter–Wegman message authentication codes
Hash-based Message Authentication Code
SipHash24
surface form: SipHash-2-4