February1997, bylines H.Krawczyk, M.Bellare and R.Canetti. Title page and Status of This Memo classify the RFC as Informational; §§1–2 motivate and define HMAC. Full author identities are verified separately by the June1996 author manuscript Keying Hash Functions for Message Authentication, rather than inferred by expanding initials.
Keying Hash Functions for Message Authentication by Mihir Bellare, Ran Canetti and Hugo Krawczyk 2026-11-05
Author manuscript, title page dated June1996, exact full bylines Mihir Bellare, Ran Canetti and Hugo Krawczyk. Abstract and §§1.1–1.3 describe NMAC/HMAC, the shared-key authenticity problem and the relation between security and underlying hash-function assumptions. The title page identifies an abridged version in CRYPTO96 proceedings, LNCS1109.
Author-hosted manuscript dated26August1992, by Mihir Bellare and Oded Goldreich; author context www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~oded/pok.html . Definition 3.1, printed p. 9, gives oracle extraction and knowledge error; section 4.4, printed p. 11, discusses the graph-isomorphism example and error 1/2. Author bibliography identifies CRYPTO92 proceedings, LNCS740, pp.390–420, published1993.
Alternate author-hosted manuscript: cseweb.ucsd.edu/~mihir/papers/pok.pdf . Both author-hosted manuscripts are dated 26 August 1992; the proceedings publication year remains 1993.
Author manuscript dated September1998; title page records ISW97 proceedings, LNCS1396 (1998), and LNCS1561 (1999). Sections2.2 and3.2 explain reductions and concrete security; section4 distinguishes the formal guarantee from its assumptions and limitations.