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AES-CMAC
AES-CMAC, short of Advanced Encryption Standard-Cipher-based Message Authentication Code, is an authentication algorithm based on CMAC with the 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). AES-CMAC achieves a security goal similar to that of HMAC. Since AES-CMAC is based on a symmetric key block cipher, AES, and HMAC is based on a hash function, such as SHA-1, AES-CMAC is appropriate for information systems in which AES is more readily available than a hash function. |
