| CPC H04L 9/0618 (2013.01) | 20 Claims |

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1. An apparatus, comprising:
an encryption circuit comprising:
a stream cipher circuit to generate a pseudorandom hash key using a plaintext and at least n number of bits of a constant value, where n comprises the number of bits used as the pseudorandom hash key; and
a keyed hash function circuit that receives as an input the pseudorandom hash key.
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