Message forgery
Encyclopedia
In cryptography
, message forgery is the sending of a message to deceive the recipient as to whom the real sender is. A common example is sending a spam
e-mail as if it were originated from an address other than the one which was really used.
Cryptography
Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties...
, message forgery is the sending of a message to deceive the recipient as to whom the real sender is. A common example is sending a spam
E-mail spam
Email spam, also known as junk email or unsolicited bulk email , is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by email. Definitions of spam usually include the aspects that email is unsolicited and sent in bulk. One subset of UBE is UCE...
e-mail as if it were originated from an address other than the one which was really used.
See also
- AuthenticationAuthenticationAuthentication is the act of confirming the truth of an attribute of a datum or entity...
- Message authentication codeMessage authentication codeIn cryptography, a message authentication code is a short piece of information used to authenticate a message.A MAC algorithm, sometimes called a keyed hash function, accepts as input a secret key and an arbitrary-length message to be authenticated, and outputs a MAC...
- Stream cipher attackStream cipher attackStream ciphers, where plaintext bits are combined with a cipher bit stream by an exclusive-or operation , can be very secure if used properly. However they are vulnerable to attack if certain precautions are not followed:*keys must never be used twice...