MAC消息认证码与Hash函数的关系和区别

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两个是个不同范畴的东西

Hash

A hash is a function that produces a digest from a message. A cryptographically secure hash is for which it is computationally infeasible to generate a message with a given digest. On its own a hash of a message gives no information about the sender of a given message. If you can securely communicate the hash of a message then it can be used to verify that a large message has been correctly received over an unsecured transport.

MAC

A message authentication code is a way of combining a shared secret key with the a message so that the recipient of the message can authenticate that the sender of the message has the shared secret key and the no-one who doesn’t know the secret key could have sent or altered the message.

HMAC

An HMAC i