Message forgery

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In cryptography, message forgery is sending a message so to deceive the recipient about the actual sender's identity. A common example is sending a spam or prank e-mail as if it were originated from an address other than the one which was really used.

## See also[edit]

* Authentication
* Message authentication code
* Stream cipher attack

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