Structural Properties of One-way Hash Functions

  • Authors:
  • Yuliang Zheng;Tsutomu Matsumoto;Hideki Imai

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CRYPTO '90 Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

We study the following two kinds of one-way hash functions: universal one-way hash functions (UOHs) and collision intractable hash functions (CIHs). The main property of the former is that given an initial-string x, it is computationally difficult to find a different string y that collides with x. And the main property of the latter is that it is computationally difficult to find a pair x 驴 y of strings such that x collides with y. Our main results are as follows. First we prove that UOHs with respect to initial-strings chosen arbitrarily exist if and only if UOHs with respect to initial-strings chosen uniformly at random exist. Then, as an application of the result, we show that UOHs with respect to initial-strings chosen arbitrarily can be constructed under a weaker assumption, the existence of one-way guasi-injections. Finally, we investigate relationships among various versions of one-way hash functions. We prove that some versions of one-way hash functions axe strictly included in others by explicitly constructing hash functions that are one-way in the sense of the former but not in the sense of the latter.