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.
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.
Cryptology ePrint Archive report2000/067. Abstract describes modular security analysis and concurrent composition. Received23December2000; current version revised12February2020; an extended abstract appeared at FOCS2001. The current revision is not the unchanged2001 text.