For more information on a MAC, see RFC 2104. See also e467 Listing All Available Message Authentication Code (MAC) Key Generators.
try {
// Generate a key for the HMAC-MD5 keyed-hashing algorithm
KeyGenerator keyGen = KeyGenerator.getInstance("HmacMD5");
SecretKey key = keyGen.generateKey();
// Generate a key for the HMAC-SHA1 keyed-hashing algorithm
keyGen = KeyGenerator.getInstance("HmacSHA1");
key = keyGen.generateKey();
} catch (java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
}