Re: [dtn-security] Newbie seeking some security related advice

Kristian Erik Hermansen <kristian.hermansen@gmail.com> Tue, 19 May 2009 02:50 UTC

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Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 19:46:07 -0700
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Hello Graham,

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Graham Keellings (Leonix Solutions
Pte Ltd) <Graham@leonixsolutions.com> wrote:
> how secure is MAC? One person is claiming that it is not good enough and
> needs to supplemented by hashing which sounds strange to me since I thought
> that MAC _is_ strong one-way hashing.

MAC will not be secure from tampering without hashing in cases such as
chosen plaintext attacks.  You should join us via IRC in #noisebridge
on freenode.net ;-)
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen

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