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gnu.javax.crypto.mac

Class UHash32

Implemented Interfaces:
IMac
public class UHash32
extends BaseMac
UHASH is a keyed hash function, which takes as input a string of arbitrary length, and produces as output a string of fixed length (such as 8 bytes). The actual output length depends on the parameter UMAC-OUTPUT-LEN.

UHASH has been shown to be epsilon-ASU ("Almost Strongly Universal"), where epsilon is a small (parameter-dependent) real number. Informally, saying that a keyed hash function is epsilon-ASU means that for any two distinct fixed input strings, the two outputs of the hash function with a random key "look almost like a pair of random strings". The number epsilon measures how non-random the output strings may be.

UHASH has been designed to be fast by exploiting several architectural features of modern commodity processors. It was specifically designed for use in UMAC. But UHASH is useful beyond that domain, and can be easily adopted for other purposes.

UHASH does its work in three layers. First, a hash function called NH is used to compress input messages into strings which are typically many times smaller than the input message. Second, the compressed message is hashed with an optimized polynomial hash function into a fixed-length 16-byte string. Finally, the 16-byte string is hashed using an inner-product hash into a string of length WORD-LEN bytes. These three layers are repeated (with a modified key) until the outputs total UMAC-OUTPUT-LEN bytes.

References:

  1. UMAC: Message Authentication Code using Universal Hashing.
    T. Krovetz, J. Black, S. Halevi, A. Hevia, H. Krawczyk, and P. Rogaway.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class gnu.javax.crypto.mac.BaseMac

name, truncatedSize, underlyingHash

Fields inherited from interface gnu.javax.crypto.mac.IMac

MAC_KEY_MATERIAL, TRUNCATED_SIZE

Constructor Summary

UHash32()
Trivial 0-arguments constructor.

Method Summary

Object
clone()
byte[]
digest()
void
init(Map<K,V> attributes)
int
macSize()
void
reset()
boolean
selfTest()
void
update(byte b)
void
update(byte[] b, int offset, int len)

Methods inherited from class gnu.javax.crypto.mac.BaseMac

clone, digest, init, macSize, name, reset, selfTest, update, update

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, extends Object> getClass, finalize, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

UHash32

public UHash32()
Trivial 0-arguments constructor.

Method Details

clone

public Object clone()
Specified by:
clone in interface IMac
Overrides:
clone in interface BaseMac

digest

public byte[] digest()
Specified by:
digest in interface IMac
Overrides:
digest in interface BaseMac

init

public void init(Map<K,V> attributes)
            throws InvalidKeyException,
                   IllegalStateException
Specified by:
init in interface IMac
Overrides:
init in interface BaseMac

macSize

public int macSize()
Specified by:
macSize in interface IMac
Overrides:
macSize in interface BaseMac

reset

public void reset()
Specified by:
reset in interface IMac
Overrides:
reset in interface BaseMac

selfTest

public boolean selfTest()
Specified by:
selfTest in interface IMac
Overrides:
selfTest in interface BaseMac

update

public void update(byte b)
Specified by:
update in interface IMac
Overrides:
update in interface BaseMac

update

public void update(byte[] b,
                   int offset,
                   int len)
Specified by:
update in interface IMac
Overrides:
update in interface BaseMac
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