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Hash functions play the most important role in various cryptologic applications, ranging from data integrity checking to digital signatures. Our goal is to introduce a new hash fu...
Textbooks tell us that a birthday attack on a hash function h with range size r requires r1/2 trials (hash computations) to find a collision. But this is quite misleading, being t...