Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 1997/001

A New Paradigm for Collision-free Hashing: Incrementality at Reduced Cost

Mihir Bellare and Daniele Micciancio

Abstract: We present a simple, new paradigm for the design of collision-free hash functions. Any function emanating from this paradigm is <i>incremental.</i> (This means that if a message x which I have previously hashed is modified to x' then rather than having to re-compute the hash of x' from scratch, I can quickly ``update'' the old hash value to the new one, in time proportional to the amount of modification made in x to get x'.) Also any function emanating from this paradigm is parallelizable, useful for hardware implementation.

Category / Keywords: Incremental cryptography, hash functions, collision-resistance, discrete logarithms.

Publication Info: Appeared in the THEORY OF CRYPTOGRAPHY LIBRARY and has been included in the ePrint Archive.

Date: received February 26th, 1997.

Contact author: mihir at cs ucsd edu

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Short URL: ia.cr/1997/001

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