Document Type
Conference Paper
RIS ID
30204
Citation
Reyhanitabar, Mohammad R.; Susilo, Willy; and Mu, Yi, 2009, Enhanced target collision resistant hash functions revisited, O. Dunkelman In Fast Software Encryption, 16th International Workshop, FSE 2009, 22February 2009, Leuven, Belgium. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5665, 327-344.
http://ro.uow.edu.au/era/1499
Abstract
Enhanced Target Collision Resistance (eTCR) property for a hash function was put forth by Halevi and Krawczyk in Crypto 2006, in conjunction with the randomized hashing mode that is used to realize such a hash function family. eTCR is a strengthened variant of the well-known TCR (or UOWHF) property for a hash function family (i.e. a dedicated-key hash function).The contributions of this paper are twofold. First, we compare the new eTCR property with the well-known collision resistance (CR) property, where both properties are considered for a dedicated-key hash function. We show there is a separation between the two notions, that is \emph{in general}, eTCR property cannot be claimed to be weaker (or stronger) than CR property for any arbitrary dedicated-key hash function. Second, we consider the problem of eTCR property preserving domain extension. We study several domain extension methods for this purpose, including (Plain, Strengthened, and Prefix-free) Merkle-Damg{\aa}rd, Randomized Hashing (considered in dedicated-key hash setting), Shoup, Enveloped Shoup, XOR Linear Hash (XLH), and Linear Hash (LH) methods.Interestingly, we show that the only eTCR preserving method is a nested variant of LH which has a drawback of having high key expansion factor. Therefore, it is interesting to design a new and efficient eTCR preserving domain extension in the standard model.