[Resource Topic] 2005/161: Multiple forgery attacks against Message Authentication Codes

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Title:
Multiple forgery attacks against Message Authentication Codes

Authors: David A. McGrew, Scott R. Fluhrer

Abstract:

Some message authentication codes (MACs) are vulnerable to multiple forgery attacks, in which an attacker can gain information that allows her to succeed in forging multiple message/tag pairs. This property was first noted in MACs based on universal hashing, such as the Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) of operation for block ciphers. However, we show that CBC-MAC and HMAC also have this property, and for some parameters are more vulnerable than GCM. We present multiple-forgery attacks against these algorithms, then analyze the security against these attacks by using the expected number of forgeries. We compare the different MACs using this measure.

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ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/161

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