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Collision-Free Hash Function


A function H that maps an arbitrary length message M to a fixed length message digest MD is a collision-free hash function if

1. It is a one-way hash function.

2. It is hard to find two distinct messages (M^',M) that hash to the same result H(M^')=H(M). More precisely, any efficient algorithm (solving a P-problem) succeeds in finding such a collision with negligible probability (Russell 1992).


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Bakhtiari, S.; Safavi-Naini, R.; and Pieprzyk, J. Cryptographic Hash Functions: A Survey. Technical Report 95-09, Department of Computer Science, University of Wollongong, July 1995. ftp://ftp.cs.uow.edu.au/pub/papers/1995/tr-95-09.ps.Z.Russell, A. "Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Collision-Free Hashing." In Abstracts of Crypto 92. pp. 10-22-10-27, 1992. ftp://theory.lcs.mit.edu/pub/people/acr/hash.ps.

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