Re: [Hash] UMAC and HMAC

Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> Tue, 21 June 2005 13:17 UTC

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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:17:25 -0400
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From: Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>
Subject: Re: [Hash] UMAC and HMAC
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Jim:

These have very different requirements.  My preference is to focus on the 
one-way hash function for this charter.  If your intuition turns out to be 
correct, then the charter can be expanded.

Russ

At 03:17 AM 6/21/2005, Jim Schaad wrote:
>In the process of reviewing some other documents a question has occurred to
>me.  If we are looking at the different places where hash functions are used
>during phase 2 of the charter work, should we include a section in these
>documents deal with other methods of acheving these aims?  Thus should we,
>at least in a cursory fashion, deal with items such as HMAC and UMAC for
>message authentication problems?
>
>Jim


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