pipenet
Bill Ahern
wahern at 25thandClement.com
Tue Feb 6 00:17:59 PST 2001
I am trying to build a prototype pipenet system. ver 1.1 of the model, as
opposed to the original, calls for a MAC and sequence number. what are the
implications of excluding the seperate MAC and simply using the sequence as
the authenticator? since any decent cipher, using CBC mode, should alter the
sequence regardless of its position in the cell. am i wrong on this? am i
missing some relationship between a seperate MAC, a sequence and the cell?
if a seperate MAC is necessary, what are alternatives to using popular HMAC's
(MD5,SHA1...), since these seem too long (16bytes * #nodes). would crc32
suffice?
thanx,
bill
p.s. feel free to shoot down any and all assumptions i have unwittingly made
;)
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Bill Ahern
wahern at 25thandClement.com
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