Message forgery

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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.

[edit] See also

• Authentication
• Message authentication code
• Stream cipher attack

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