Editing Message authentication code (section)

==Terminology==
{{anchor|message integrity code}}The term '''message integrity code''' ('''MIC''') is frequently substituted for the term ''MAC'', especially in communications<ref>{{cite book |publisher=[[IEEE-SA]] |date=12 June 2007 |doi=10.1109/IEEESTD.2007.373646 |url=http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.11-2007.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013101112/http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.11-2007.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 October 2008 | version=(2007 revision)|isbn=978-0-7381-5656-9 |title=IEEE Standard for Information Technology - Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems - Local and Metropolitan Area Networks - Specific Requirements - Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications }}</ref> to distinguish it from the use of the latter as ''[[media access control address]]'' (''MAC address''). However, some authors<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs513/2005fa/NL20.hashing.html|title=CS 513 System Security -- Hashes and Message Digests|website=www.cs.cornell.edu|accessdate=20 December 2023}}</ref> use MIC to refer to a [[message digest]], which aims only to uniquely but opaquely identify a single message. RFC 4949 recommends avoiding the term ''message integrity code'' (MIC), and instead using ''[[checksum]]'', ''[[error detection code]]'', ''[[hash function|hash]]'', ''keyed hash'', ''message authentication code'', or ''protected checksum''.