Collision-Resistant Hash Functions

Chapter Contents

1. 10.1.Defining collision resistance
2. 10.2.Hash functions in the real world
3. 10.2.1.Theory vs. practice
4. 10.2.2.Hashing passwords
5. 10.3.Composing collision-resistant functions
6. 10.4.The Merkle-Damgård construction
7. 10.4.1.Merkle-Damgård in practice
8. 10.5.PRFs from Merkle-Damgård: Length extension, NMAC, and HMAC
9. 10.5.1.Length-extension attacks
10. 10.5.2.Hash-then-PRF
11. 10.5.3.NMAC and HMAC
12. Exercises
13. Chapter Notes & References

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