摘要 |
An apparatus and method of protecting the integrity of a database is provided. Protection of the database is implemented by randomly selecting part of the database that is to be authenticated, the part of the database being less than the entire database to be authenticated. Then, only the selected part of the database is processed through a security function to generate a representation of authentication of the database for comparison with another representation of authentication of the database. Based on a comparison of the representation of authentication and the another representation of authentication, it is determined if integrity of the database has been maintained.
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