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Title:
A new stand-alone MAC construct called SMAC
Authors: Dachao Wang, Alexander Maximov, Patrik Ekdahl, Thomas Johansson
Abstract:In this paper, we present a new efficient stand-alone MAC construct based on processing using the FSM part of the stream cipher family SNOW, which in turn uses the AES round function. It offers a combination of very high speed in software and hardware with a truncatable tag. Two concrete versions of SMAC are proposed with different security levels, although other use cases are also possible. For example, SMAC can be combined with an external ciphering engine in AEAD mode. Every design choice is justified and supported by the results of our analysis and simulations. A novelty of the proposal is that it meets future performance requirements but is still not directly vulnerable to attacks using repeated nonce when the tag size is short, as is the case for other very fast MACs (MACs based on polynomial hashing). This can be an important aspect in practical applications.
ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/819
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