Re: [Gen-art] Assignment: draft-krovetz-umac-07.txt

This individual contribution for informational RFC appears to be ready for 
publication.

The text in section 5 raised a question.  If this is intended to be read by 
folks who are not security experts, an explanation of what the algorithm is 
to be used for in lay terms would be helpful.  The text says in section 5
    Please note that UHASH has certain combinatoric properties making it
    suitable for Wegman-Carter message authentication.  UHASH is not a
    cryptographic hash function and is not a suitable general replacement
    for functions like SHA-1.
So there are clearly cases to use and not use this material.

minor:  I would suggest that the phrase in the introduction describing the 
absence of intellectual property claims should probably include "to date".

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UMAC: Message Authentication Code using Universal Hashing (Informational) - 
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     <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-krovetz-umac-07.txt>draft-krovetz-umac-07.txt

Token:  <mailto:housley@vigilsec.com>Russ Housley
Reviewer: Joel Halpern

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