Textbooks tell us that a birthday attack on a hash function h with range size r requires r1/2 trials (hash computations) to find a collision. But this is quite misleading, being t...
Hash functions play the most important role in various cryptologic applications, ranging from data integrity checking to digital signatures. Our goal is to introduce a new hash fu...
PANAMA is a cryptographic module that was presented at the FSE Workshop in ’98 by Joan Daemen and Craig Clapp. It can serve both as a stream cipher and as a cryptographic hash fu...
Vincent Rijmen, Bart Van Rompay, Bart Preneel, Joo...
Abstract. Since the demise of the Overnet network, the Kad network has become not only the most popular but also the only widely used peer-to-peer system based on a distributed has...
Thomas Locher, David Mysicka, Stefan Schmid, Roger...