PMAC (cryptography)

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PMAC which stands for Parallelizable MAC is a Message Authentication Code algorithm. It was created by Phil Rogaway (link: http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/pmac.htm).

Essentially PMAC is a method of taking a block cipher and creating an efficient Message Authentication Code that is provably reducible in security to the underlying block cipher.

PMAC is similar in functionality to the OMAC algorithm.