Horton Principle (original) (raw)
The Horton Principle is a design rule for cryptographic systems and can be expressed as "Authenticate what is being meant, not what is being said" or "mean what you sign and sign what you mean" not merely the encrypted version of what was meant. The principle is named after the title character in the Dr. Seuss children's book Horton Hatches the Egg. Systems can manage this problem by adding metadata such as a protocol number or by formatting messages with an explicit structure, such as XML.
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| dbo:abstract | The Horton Principle is a design rule for cryptographic systems and can be expressed as "Authenticate what is being meant, not what is being said" or "mean what you sign and sign what you mean" not merely the encrypted version of what was meant. The principle is named after the title character in the Dr. Seuss children's book Horton Hatches the Egg. The Horton Principle becomes important when using Message Authentication Codes (or MACs) in a cryptographic system. Suppose Alice wants to send a message to Bob, and she uses a MAC to authenticate a message m that was made by concatenating three data fields, where m := a | | b |
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| rdfs:comment | The Horton Principle is a design rule for cryptographic systems and can be expressed as "Authenticate what is being meant, not what is being said" or "mean what you sign and sign what you mean" not merely the encrypted version of what was meant. The principle is named after the title character in the Dr. Seuss children's book Horton Hatches the Egg. Systems can manage this problem by adding metadata such as a protocol number or by formatting messages with an explicit structure, such as XML. (en) | |
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