A note on the fragility of the "Michael" message integrity code

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1459-1462

  Wool, Avishai ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Message authentication code; Wireless security

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SECURITY OF DATA; STANDARDS; VECTORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

INITIALIZATION VECTORS (IV); MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION CODES; WIRELESS SECURITY;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 7544239419     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2004.833470     Document Type: Article

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