HMAC & Message Authentication Codes (MACs): Ensuring Data Integrity Beyond Hashing

An exploration of why hashing alone is insufficient for data integrity and how HMACs and MACs provide enhanced security in data authentication.

HMAC & Message Authentication Codes (MACs): Ensuring Data Integrity Beyond Hashing
JayPMedia
6.7K views • Aug 11, 2023
HMAC & Message Authentication Codes (MACs): Ensuring Data Integrity Beyond Hashing

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This is one of the many videos in the mini-series of HTTPS
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLql0J2JIDXdOREGUibCXlsevKDK4o8EzN

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Any developer should understand the importance of TLS, and understanding Message Authentication Codes is a critical prerequisite.
Understand in this video why hashing alone won't do it for integrity, and learn why HMAC is used in TLS

0:00 Introduction
0:40 Bit Flipping Attack
1:14 Hashing
1:55 The problem with Hashing
2:19 What is HMAC
3:25 MAC algorithms
3:51 HMAC in TLS
4:07 HMAC is flexible
4:17 HMAC is standardized
4:32 Security of HMAC
5:25 Why HMAC modifies key internally
5:55 THE END

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