摘要 |
A system and method for data encryption/decryption and authentication using a relatively long security sequence number (SSN). The SSN is used both to encrypt data and to compute a message integrity code (MIC). However, the entire SSN need not be transmitted from sender device to receiver device. For example, only the lowest order octet of the SSN is transmitted to the receiver device. The receiver device computes the entire SSN based on the received portion. |