Abstract: Techniques for authenticating data on a computing device are provided. An example method according to these techniques includes generating a first cryptographic output by applying a first cryptographic algorithm to each block of a first subset of the plurality of blocks of data to be authenticated, combining a last block of the first cryptographic output with a second subset of the plurality of blocks of data to generate an intermediate result, and generating an authentication output by applying a second cryptographic algorithm to the intermediate result, the second cryptographic algorithm being different than the first cryptographic algorithm.