Title
Stam’s collision resistance conjecture
Abstract
At CRYPTO 2008 Stam [7] made the following conjecture: if an m+s-bit to s-bit compression function F makes r calls to a primitive f of n-bit input, then a collision for F can be obtained (with high probability) using r2(nr−m)/(r+1) queries to f. For example, a 2n-bit to n-bit compression function making two calls to a random function of n-bit input cannot have collision security exceeding 2n/3. We prove this conjecture up to a constant multiplicative factor and under the condition m′ :=(2m−n(r−1))/(r+1)≥log2(17). This covers nearly all cases r=1 of the conjecture and the aforementioned example of a 2n-bit to n-bit compression function making two calls to a primitive of n-bit input.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-13190-5_30
EUROCRYPT
Keywords
Field
DocType
random function
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Multiplicative function,Collision resistance,Collision,Hash function,Conjecture,Mathematics,Random function
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
6110 LNCS
null
0302-9743
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
3-642-13189-1
10
0.56
References 
Authors
6
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
John P. Steinberger132918.30