An empirical test suite for message authentication evaluation in communications based on support vector machines

Abstract

The strength of data integrity, message authentication and pseudonym generation mechanisms in the design of secure multimedia communication applications relies on the quality of the message digest algorithms used. In this paper, we propose Support Vector Machines based evaluation benchmarks to assess the message digest function quality since there is lack of practical tests to be applied to message digest algorithms in the emerging field of designing secure information and communication systems especially for the delivery of multimedia content, where the issues of copyright protection and security in transactions are outstanding.