| CPC H04L 63/083 (2013.01) [H04L 9/3242 (2013.01); H04L 2209/043 (2013.01)] | 17 Claims |

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12. A method of receiving a message, the method comprising:
combining each message of a plurality of messages with an authentication key to compute, for each message of the plurality of messages, a respective message tag of a plurality of message tags for validating one or more message tags associated with one or more messages;
storing the plurality of messages and the plurality of message tags in a memory;
receiving a message-tag pair, the message-tag pair comprising a message tag and a corresponding message, from a message-sending device;
validating the received message tag based on comparing the received message tag with the stored plurality of message tags to identify a matching message tag;
in response to a trigger event, updating the authentication key for computing one or more updated message tags;
combining each of the plurality of messages with the updated authentication key to compute a plurality of updates message tags; and
storing the plurality of updated message tags in the memory.
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