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Re:Megafail by pjscott on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @01:22AM (#5101791)
Wait, what? An HMAC is a MAC -- just one that happens to be constructed from a hash function in a particular way.
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Re:Megafail by homedog on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @08:40AM (#5102959)
This is just nitpicking. I did not say HMACs were not MACs anywhere in my comment.
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Re:Megafail by muyuu on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @05:40AM (#5102436)
In a particular way that happens to solve the problem at hand.
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