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	Title		: UMAC: Message Authentication Code using Universal Hashing
	Author(s)	: T. Krovetz
	Filename	: draft-krovetz-umac-06.txt
	Pages		: 26
	Date		: 2005-10-10

This specification describes how to generate an authentication tag
   using the UMAC message authentication algorithm.  UMAC is designed to
   be very fast to compute in software on contemporary uniprocessors.
   Measured speeds are as low as one cycle per byte.  UMAC relies on
   addition of 32-bit and 64-bit numbers and multiplication of 32-bit
   numbers, operations well-supported by contemporary machines.

   To generate the authentication tag on a given message, a "universal"
   hash function is applied to the message and key to produce a short,
   fixed-length hash value, and this hash value is then xor'ed with a
   key-derived pseudorandom pad.  UMAC enjoys a rigorous security
   analysis and its only internal "cryptographic" component is a block
   cipher to generate the pseudorandom pads and internal key material.

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