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

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From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce@ietf.org>
Cc: Internet Architecture Board <iab@iab.org>,
    RFC Editor <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>
Subject: Document Action: 'UMAC: Message Authentication Code 
         using Universal Hashing' to Informational RFC 

The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'UMAC: Message Authentication Code using Universal Hashing '
   <draft-krovetz-umac-08.txt> as an Informational RFC

This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an
IETF Working Group. 

The IESG contact person is Russ Housley.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-krovetz-umac-08.txt

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

  This specification describes how to generate an authentication tag
  using the UMAC message authentication algorithm.  UMAC is designed to
  be very fast to compute in software on contemporary uniprocessors.
  Measured speeds are as low as one cycle per byte.  UMAC relies on
  addition of 32-bit and 64-bit numbers and multiplication of 32-bit
  numbers; all of these operations are well-supported by contemporary
  computers.

Working Group Summary

  This document is not affiliated with any working group; however, the
  document received considerable review and comment on the CFRG mailing
  list.  The document was updated to reflect the discussion.

Protocol Quality

  At least one implementation exists.
  See http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/umac/.

Note to RFC Editor

  Please replace the first paragraph of the Introduction as follows:

  OLD:

   UMAC is a message authentication algorithm (MAC) designed for high
   performance.  It it backed by a rigorous formal analysis and there
   are no intellectual property claims made to any ideas used in its
   design.

  NEW:

   UMAC is a message authentication algorithm (MAC) designed for high
   performance.  It is backed by a rigorous formal analysis and there
   are no intellectual property claims made by any of the authors to
   any ideas used in its design.

RFC Editor Note