Chris J. Mitchell (2007) Generic collision attacks on hash-functions and HMAC.
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Over the last two or three years there has been a huge amount of interest in hash-function specific collision attacks. In this talk we will consider a slightly different problem, namely the difficulty of finding a collision for an arbitrary hash-function, i.e. using methods which work regardless of how the internals of the hash-function are designed. The results suggest that finding collisions for hash-functions may be slightly easier than was previously believed. The implications of this for applications of hash-functions including HMAC are explored.
This is a Draft version This version's date is: 05/2007 This item is not peer reviewed
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