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2016
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In this document we present an overview of the background to and goals of the Password Hashing Competition (PHC) as well as the design of its winner, Argon2, and its security requi...
IACR
2016
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2016
—This paper investigates the degradation properties of Boolean functions from the aspects of the distributions of differences and linear masks, and shows two characterizations of...
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2016
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Abstract. We study the quantum query complexity of finding a collision for a function f whose outputs are chosen according to a distribution with min-entropy k. We prove that Ω(...
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2016
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Abstract. In this paper we consider the fundamental question of optimizing finite field multiplications with one fixed element. Surprisingly, this question did not receive much ...
IACR
2016
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We study the problem of devising provably secure PRNGs with input based on the sponge paradigm. Such constructions are very appealing, as efficient software/hardware implementation...
IACR
2016
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2016
We investigate two attacks on the PRINCE block cipher in the most realistic scenario, when the attacker only has a minimal amount of known plaintext available. The first attack is...
IACR
2016
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2016
Reputation systems are crucial for distributed applications in which users have to be made accountable for their actions, such as ecommerce websites. However, existing systems ofte...
IACR
2016
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2016
BIP70 is a community-accepted Payment Protocol standard that governs how merchants and customers perform payments in Bitcoin. This standard is supported by most major wallets and t...
IACR
2016
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2016
ct This paper shows how several ring-LWE based key exchange protocols can be broken, under the assumption that the same key share is used for multiple exchanges. This indicates tha...
IACR
2016
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2016
We introduce the novel notion of a Proof of Human-work (PoH) and present the first distributed consensus protocol from hard Artificial Intelligence problems. As the name suggest...