UMAC: Fast and Provably Secure Mesage Authentication (1999)

UMAC is a specification for generating message authentication tags. At the time of its initial publication, UMAC is the fastest, provably secure, message authentication scheme reported in the cryptographic literature.

The files accessible from this website reflect a work-in-progress. We are calling this current snapshot version 0.25.

Essential Downloads: The UMAC source code and Internet RFC.

Public-Domain ANSI C Source Code	UMAC Source Code
Timing and Throughput Data	UMAC Performance
Internet RFC	Not Yet Available

Optional Downloads: Reasearch and generalized specification.

Parameterized Specification Document	umac_spec.txt
CRYPTO 99 Proceedings Paper	ps (857K), pdf (225K)
Expanded Paper	ps (615K), pdf (290K)

References:

"UMAC: Fast and Secure Message Authentication", J. Black, S. Halevi, H. Krawczyk, T. Krovetz, P. Rogaway, in Proceedings of Crypto 99, 1999.

Last updated 1 October 2004. For questions or comments, please contact Ted Krovetz <tdk@acm.org>.