Which type of attack does the use of HMACs protect against?
- brute force
- DDoS
- DoS
- man-in-the-middle
Explanation: Because only the sender and receiver know the secret key, only parties that have access to that key can compute the digest of an HMAC function. This defeats man-in-the-middle attacks and provides authentication of where the data originated.
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