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1985 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

A Message Authenticator Algorithm Suitable for a Mainframe Computer

Author : Donald Watts Davies

Published in: Advances in Cryptology

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Included in: Professional Book Archive

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Authenticators are widely used to protect payment messages againts active attack. They produce a number, sometimes called a ‘MAC’ which is a function of the whole message and a secrety key. the earlier name for them in banking was ‘test-key’, but this obsolescent term is confusing to cryptographers.

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Title
A Message Authenticator Algorithm Suitable for a Mainframe Computer
Author
Donald Watts Davies
Copyright Year
1985
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book
Advances in Cryptology

Print ISBN: 978-3-540-15658-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-540-39568-3

Copyright Year: 1985

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39568-7_30