Generic Attacks on Hash Functions

The subject of this thesis is a security property of hash functions, called chosen-target forced-prefix preimage (CTFP) resistance and the generic attack on this property, called the herding attack. The study of CTFP resistance started when Kelsey-Kohno introduced a new data structure, called a diam...

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Main Author: Upadhyay, Jalaj
Language:en
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5527