UMAC: Message Authentication Code using Universal Hashing
draft-krovetz-umac-07

[Ballot comment]
(from Joel Halpern's Gen-ART review)

The text in section 5 raised a question.  If this is intended to be read by folks who are not security experts, an explanation of what the algorithm is to be used for in lay terms would be helpful.  The text says in section 5
  Please note that UHASH has certain combinatoric properties making it
  suitable for Wegman-Carter message authentication.  UHASH is not a
  cryptographic hash function and is not a suitable general replacement
  for functions like SHA-1.
So there are clearly cases to use and not use this material.

[Ballot discuss]
The Introduction says "... and there
are no intellectual property claims made to any ideas used in its
design."

While this isn't strictly against the letter of
Section 11 of RFC 3979, it seems against the spirit and
could become untrue at some time in the future. I think
it should be deleted.