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ID | 111 |
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First Name | Kristen |
Last Name | Meyer |
Institution | Iowa State University |
Speaker Category | graduate student |
Title of Talk | Message Authentication Codes and Quasigroups |
Abstract | Message Authentication Codes, or MACs, are commonly used cryptographic tools to ensure that a message has not been changed in transit. MACs can be constructed from a variety of mathematical structures and in a variety of ways. In this talk, I will describe a new MAC (called QMAC) which is based on the non-associativity of quasigroups. In order to obtain security against forgeries, quasigroups of large order must be used. I will also discuss how to create and represent such quasigroups. |
Subject area(s) | Cryptography |
Suitable for undergraduates? | Yes |
Day Preference | |
Computer Needed? | Y |
Bringing a laptop? | N |
Overhead Needed? | Y |
Software requests | Adobe Acrobat Reader |
Special Needs | |
Date Submitted | 2/28/2005 |
Year | 2005 |