A fast software one-way hash function

✍ Scribed by Ralph C. Merkle

• Book ID: 104662550
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 834 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0933-2790
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00203968

✦ Synopsis

One way hash functions are an important cryptographic primitive, and can be used to solve a wide variety of problems involving authentication and integrity. It would be useful to adopt a standard one-way hash function for use in a wide variety of systems throughout the word. Such a standard one-way hash function should be easy to implement, use, and understand; resistant to cryptographic attack, and should be fast when implemented in software. We present a candidate one-way hash function which appears to have these desirable properties. Further analysis of its cryptographic security is required before it can be considered for widespread use.