Generic attacks on iterated hash functions

Master Thesis

2009

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Van der Merwe, Thyla Joy
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Swart, Christine
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University of Cape Town

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Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
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Faculty of Science
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Abstract
We survery the existing generic attacks on hash functions based on the Merkle­Damgard construction: that is, attacks in which the compression function is treated as a black box.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-132).

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Mathematics and Applied Mathematics

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Van der Merwe, T. 2009. Generic attacks on iterated hash functions. University of Cape Town.

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