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PMAC (cryptography)
Message authentication code algorithm From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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PMAC, which stands for parallelizable MAC, is a message authentication code algorithm. It was created by Phillip Rogaway. PMAC is a method of taking a block cipher and creating an efficient message authentication code that is reducible in security to the underlying block cipher.
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PMAC is similar in functionality to the OMAC algorithm.
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Patents
PMAC is no longer patented and can be used royalty-free. It was originally patented by Phillip Rogaway, but he has since abandoned his patent filings.[1]
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