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The paper is an attempt to use P systems in dealing with a cryptographic issue, that of message authentication. Two algorithms are proposed, with and without confirmation from the sender, based on P systems with active membranes. We are not concerned with the practical usefulness of these algorithms, but with proving the usefulness of the membrane computing framework in addressing the authentication question.
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Atanasiu, A. (2003). Authentication of Messages Using P Systems. In: PĂun, G., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A., Zandron, C. (eds) Membrane Computing. WMC 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2597. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36490-0_3
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