Title : 
Comments on “An Efficient Homomorphic MAC with Small Key Size for Authentication in Network Coding”
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Inf. & Commun. Eng., Chosun Univ., Gwangju, South Korea
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Recently, an efficient homomorphic MAC scheme for authentication in network coding is proposed and it is claimed that it achieves a security parameter 1=ql where l is selected according to different security requirements. However, in this paper, we show that there is an attack to make the security parameter 1=q instead of 1=ql. And we propose a way to avoid the presented attack.
         
        
            Keywords : 
access protocols; data integrity; network coding; telecommunication security; authentication; data integrity check mechanism; guessing attack; homomorphic MAC scheme; network coding; pollution attack; security parameter; small key size; Authentication; Network coding; Pollution; Receivers; Network coding; authentication; guessing attack; homomorphic MAC; pollution attack;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Computers, IEEE Transactions on
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/TC.2015.2409859