David Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know of any good cryptographic hash function that comes with > a proof that all outputs are possible. However, it might not be too > hard to come up with plausible examples. For example, if we apply the > Luby-Rackoff construction (i.e., 3 rounds of a Feistel cipher), with > ideal hash functions in each round, does this have the desired properties? > It might.
This seems to define a block cipher with no key, which is collision free but not one-way. Am I misunderstanding what you're proposing? -- __ Paul Crowley \/ o\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\__/ http://www.ciphergoth.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]