The CRC–NTMAC for Noisy Message Authentication

Author

Liu, Yu ; Boncelet, Charles G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Delaware Univ., Newark, DE

Volume

1

Issue

4

fYear

2006

Firstpage

517

Lastpage

523

Abstract

We present a new message authentication code (MAC) called the cyclic redundancy check-noise-tolerant message authentication code (CRC-NTMAC). The CRC-NTMAC improves upon the recently developed NTMAC. Unlike conventional MACs, such as the keyed-hash MAC (HMAC), the CRC-NTMAC and NTMAC tolerate a modest number of errors, such as might be caused by a noisy communications channel. Furthermore, both new MACs provide estimates of the number and locations of the errors. The CRC-NTMAC, however, provides better estimates and has a lower false acceptance probability. The CRC-NTMAC is also not based on cryptographic hash functions

Keywords

cyclic redundancy check codes; message authentication; telecommunication channels; CRC-NTMAC; cyclic redundancy check-noise-tolerant message authentication code; false acceptance probability; keyed-hash MAC; noisy communications channel; noisy message authentication; Collaboration; Communication channels; Cryptography; Cyclic redundancy check; Cyclic redundancy check codes; Error correction; Government; Image coding; Message authentication; Military computing; CRC–NTMAC; Cyclic redundancy check (CRC); HMAC; message authentication; noise-tolerant message authentication code (NTMAC);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1556-6013

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TIFS.2006.885027

Filename

4014103