Cryptographic hash functions are security primitives that compute check sums of messages in a strong manner and this way are of fundamental importance for ensuring integrity and au...
The hash function HAVAL is an Australian extension of well known Merkle-Damg˚ard hash functions such as MD4 and MD5. It has three variants, 3-, 4- and 5-pass HAVAL. On 3-pass HAVA...
Web Services offer great promise for integrating and automating software applications within and between enterprises over the Internet. However, ensuring that Web Services are dep...
Louise E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith, Wenbing Zhao
Whereas a block cipher enciphers messages of some one particular length the blocklength, a variable-input-length cipher takes messages of varying and preferably arbitrary leng...
We can view an existing Message Authentication Code (MAC) as a Carter-Wegman MAC in spite of the fact it may not have been designed as one. This will make the analysis easier than...