The State of Cryptographic Hash Functions

This paper describes the state of the art for cryptographic hash functions. Different definitions are compared, and the few theoretical results on hash functions are discussed. A brief overview is presented of the most important constructions, and some open problems are presented.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 1998
• Where: AC
• Authors: Bart Preneel
• Keywords: AC 1998, Cryptographic Hash Functions, Different Definitions, Hash Functions, Software Engineering