Why is RMAC resistant to birthday attacks?
Ed Gerck
egerck at nma.com
Wed Oct 23 22:41:52 EDT 2002
David Wagner wrote:
> Ed Gerck wrote:
> >(A required property of MACs is providing a uniform distribution of values for a
> >change in any of the input bits, which makes the above sequence extremely
> >improbable)
>
> Not so. This is not a required property for a MAC.
> (Not all MACs must be PRFs.)
Thanks. I should have written "a usually required property". In general,
to have a good MAC, we require a good PRF.
Ed Gerck
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