Paper 2012/352

On Hashing Graphs

Ashish Kundu and Elisa Bertino

Abstract

Collision resistant one-way hashing schemes are the basic building blocks of almost all crypto-systems. Use of graph-structured data models are on the rise -- in graph databases, representation of biological and healthcare data as well as in modeling systems for representing system topologies. Therefore, the problem of hashing graphs with respect to crypto-systems needs to be studied and addressed. The traditional Merkle Hash technique cannot be applied as it is because graphs are more complex data structures than trees. In this paper, we make the following contributions: (1) we define the formal security model of hashing schemes for graphs, (2) we define the formal security model of leakage-free hashing schemes for graphs, (3) we describe a hashing scheme for hashing directed and undirected graphs that uses Merkle hash technique, (4) and a hashing scheme that uses structural information instead of Merkle hash technique, (5) we define leakage-free hashing schemes for graphs. Our constructions use graph traversal techniques and are highly efficient with respect to updates to graphs: they require as little as two (O(1)) hash values to be updated to refresh the hash of the graph, while the Merkle Hash Technique and Search DAG schemes for trees and DAGs respectively require as many as O(|V|) and O(|V|+|E|).

Metadata
Available format(s)
PDF PS
Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Manuscript (Preliminary draft)
Keywords
HashGraphsMerkle Hash Technique
Contact author(s)
akundu @ us ibm com
History
2012-06-22: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2012/352
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2012/352,
      author = {Ashish Kundu and Elisa Bertino},
      title = {On Hashing Graphs},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2012/352},
      year = {2012},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/352}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/352}
}
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