The aim of this work is to obtain explicit conditions (i.e., conditions on the transition rates) for the stochastic comparison of Markov Processes. A general coupling technique is ...
The classical Matrosov theorem concludes uniform asymptotic stability of time varying systems via a weak Lyapunov function (positive definite, decrescent, with negative semidefi...
Abstract. Sponge functions were introduced by Bertoni et al. as an alternative to the classical MerkleDamg˚ard design. Many hash function submissions to the SHA-3 competition laun...
The design of cryptographic hash functions is a very complex and failure-prone process. For this reason, this paper puts forward a completely modular and fault-tolerant approach to...
This paper considers the construction and analysis of pseudo-random functions (PRFs) with specific reference to modes of operations of a block cipher. In the context of message aut...