Glossary of Data Communications Terms

Courtesy Enterprise-Wide Computing, Inc.

Term: MDC
Definition: Manipulation (Modification) Detection Code. A redundancy check field included in the plaintext of a chain before encipherment, so that changes to the ciphertext (an active attack) will be detected.

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