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The standard PRF security goal allow the attacker access to the output of SipHash on messages chosen adaptively by the attacker.
-Security is limited by the key size (128 bits).
-Attackers searching 2<sup>*s*</sup> keys have chance 2<sup>*s*−128</sup> of finding
+Security is limited by the key size (128 bits for SipHash), such that
+attackers searching 2<sup>*s*</sup> keys have chance 2<sup>*s*−128</sup> of finding
the SipHash key.
Security is also limited by the output size. In particular, when
SipHash is used as a MAC, an attacker who blindly tries 2<sup>*s*</sup> tags will