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HMAC is a method for constructing a message authentication code based on a cryptographic hash function.
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What is the difference between MAC and HMAC?
HMAC is a recipe for turning hash functions (such as MD5 or SHA256) into MACs. So HMAC-MD5 and HMAC-SHA256 are specific MAC algorithms, just like QuickSort is a specific sorting algorithm. … Others, such as HMAC, do not.
MAC algorithms should have the security property of being unforgeable under chosen-message attacks. …
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Game traffic encryption AES CTR + HMAC
HMAC-MD5 hasn't been broken, but using it is generally not recommended since MD5 has been broken. … = HMAC-SHA1(master_key, "Authentication key")
A couple suggestions. …