Message forgery

In cryptography, message forgery is the sending of a message to deceive the recipient as to whom the real sender is. A common example is sending a spam e-mail from an address belonging to someone else.

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See also: Message forgery, Authentication, Cryptography, Message authentication code, Spam, Stream cipher attack