Title :
Message authentication with one-way hash functions
Author_Institution :
Comput. Networks & Distributed Syst. Lab., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
The authors introduce encryption-free message authentication based entirely on the use of one-way hash functions. It is shown that fast one-way hash functions such as MD4 can be used as a foundation for some relatively novel implementations of security services. In particular, simple and inexpensive secret prefix and secret suffix methods provide protection against message substitution attacks when used in conjunction with a strong one-way hash function (which itself protects against message modification)
Keywords :
computer networks; message authentication; protocols; MD4; encryption-free message authentication; high-speed network protocols; message substitution attacks; one-way hash functions; secret prefix methods; secret suffix methods; security; Bandwidth; Computer networks; Costs; Hardware; High-speed networks; Laboratories; Message authentication; Protection; Protocols; Public key cryptography;
Conference_Titel :
INFOCOM '92. Eleventh Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies, IEEE
Conference_Location :
Florence
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0602-3
DOI :
10.1109/INFCOM.1992.263477
