Abstract. In the context of iterated hash functions, "dithering" designates the technique of adding an iteration-dependent input to the compression function in order to d...
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...
Understanding what construction strategy has a chance to be a good hash function is extremely important nowadays. In TCC'04, Maurer et al. [13] introduced the notion of indiff...
Transaction-level modeling (TLM) allows a designer to save functional verification effort during the modular refinement of an SoC by reusing the prior implementation of a module a...
Recent collision-finding attacks against hash functions such as MD5 and SHA-1 motivate the use of provably collision-resistant (CR) functions in their place. Finding a collision ...