Note: Construction of universal one-way hash functions: Tree hashing revisited

  • Authors:
  • Palash Sarkar

  • Affiliations:
  • Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203, B.T. Road, Kolkata 700108, India

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We present a binary tree based parallel algorithm for extending the domain of a universal one-way hash function (UOWHF). For t≥2, our algorithm extends the domain from the set of all n-bit strings to the set of all ((2t-1)(n-m)+m)-bit strings, where m is the length of the message digest. The associated increase in key length is 2m bits for t=2; m(t+1) bits for 3≤t≤6 and mx(t+log2( t-1)) bits for t≥7.