In cryptography, a universal hashing message authentication code, or UMAC, is a message authentication code (MAC) calculated using universal hashing, which...

UMAC may refer to: UMAC (cryptography), a type of message authentication code University of Macau Upper Midwest Athletic Conference, an NCAA conference...

In cryptography, a salt is random data fed as an additional input to a one-way function that hashes data, a password or passphrase. Salting helps defend...

In cryptography, a nonce is an arbitrary number that can be used just once in a cryptographic communication. It is often a random or pseudo-random number...

A cryptographic hash function (CHF) is a hash algorithm (a map of an arbitrary binary string to a binary string with a fixed size of n {\displaystyle...

Cryptography, or cryptology (from Ancient Greek: κρυπτός, romanized: kryptós "hidden, secret"; and γράφειν graphein, "to write", or -λογία -logia, "study"...

and topical guide to cryptography: Cryptography (or cryptology) – practice and study of hiding information. Modern cryptography intersects the disciplines...

PBKDF2 key derivation function, the POLY1305 (with assembly for x86_64) and UMAC message authentication codes, RIPEMD160, the Salsa20 stream cipher (with...

Type 3 encryption • Type 4 encryption • Typex UES (cipher) • Ultra (cryptography) • UMAC • Unbalanced Oil and Vinegar • Undeniable signature • Unicity distance...

In cryptography, a message authentication code (MAC), sometimes known as an authentication tag, is a short piece of information used for authenticating...

In cryptography, a pepper is a secret added to an input such as a password during hashing with a cryptographic hash function. This value differs from...

In cryptography, PBKDF1 and PBKDF2 (Password-Based Key Derivation Function 1 and 2) are key derivation functions with a sliding computational cost, used...

EdDSA, ECDSA, RSA and DSA for public-key cryptography. ECDH and Diffie–Hellman for key exchange. HMAC, AEAD and UMAC for MAC. AES (and deprecated RC4, 3DES...

functions, including cyclic redundancy checks, checksum functions, and cryptographic hash functions. Adler-32 is often mistaken for a CRC, but it is not:...

In cryptography, an HMAC (sometimes expanded as either keyed-hash message authentication code or hash-based message authentication code) is a specific...

In computer science and cryptography, Whirlpool (sometimes styled WHIRLPOOL) is a cryptographic hash function. It was designed by Vincent Rijmen (co-creator...

In cryptography, a block cipher mode of operation is an algorithm that uses a block cipher to provide information security such as confidentiality or authenticity...

The MD2 Message-Digest Algorithm is a cryptographic hash function developed by Ronald Rivest in 1989. The algorithm is optimized for 8-bit computers....

MAC functions CBC-MAC DAA GMAC HMAC NMAC OMAC/CMAC PMAC Poly1305 SipHash UMAC VMAC Authenticated encryption modes CCM ChaCha20-Poly1305 CWC EAX GCM IAPM...

In cryptography and computer science, a hash tree or Merkle tree is a tree in which every "leaf" node is labelled with the cryptographic hash of a data...

In cryptography, cryptographic hash functions can be divided into two main categories. In the first category are those functions whose designs are based...

a cryptographic hash function; however it has been found to suffer from extensive vulnerabilities. It remains suitable for other non-cryptographic purposes...

Snefru is a cryptographic hash function invented by Ralph Merkle in 1990 while working at Xerox PARC. The function supports 128-bit and 256-bit output...

2002. Black has been involved in the invention of several cryptographic algorithms including UMAC, PMAC, OCB, and CMAC as well as algorithms related to Format...

In cryptography, the avalanche effect is the desirable property of cryptographic algorithms, typically block ciphers and cryptographic hash functions...

European research project funded from 2000 to 2003 to identify secure cryptographic primitives. The project was comparable to the NIST AES process and the...

In cryptography, a sponge function or sponge construction is any of a class of algorithms with finite internal state that take an input bit stream of any...

In cryptography, Tiger is a cryptographic hash function designed by Ross Anderson and Eli Biham in 1995 for efficiency on 64-bit platforms. The size of...

In cryptography and computer security, a length extension attack is a type of attack where an attacker can use Hash(message1) and the length of message1...

yescrypt is a cryptographic key derivation function function used for password hashing on Fedora Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux. The function is...