## CryptoDB

### Paper: Second Preimage Attacks on Dithered Hash Functions

Authors: Charles Bouillaguet Pierre-Alain Fouque Sébastien Zimmer Adi Shamir URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/395 Search ePrint Search Google The goal of this paper is to analyze the security of dithered variants of the Merkle-Damgard mode of operation that use a third input to indicate the position of a block in the message to be hashed. These modes of operation for hash functions have been proposed to avoid some structural weaknesses of the Merkle-Damgard paradigm, e.g. that second preimages can be constructed in much less than $2^n$ work, as pointed out by Kelsey and Schneier. Among the modes of operation that use such a third input are Rivest's dithered hashing and Biham and Dunkelman's HAIFA proposal. We propose several new second preimage attacks on the Merkle-Damgard mode of operation, which can also attack Rivest's dithered hash with almost the same complexity. When applied to Shoup's UOWHF, these attacks can be shown to be optimal since their complexity matches Shoup's security bound.
##### BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2007-13675,
title={Second Preimage Attacks on Dithered Hash Functions},
booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
keywords={secret-key cryptography / Cryptanalysis, Hash Function, Dithering},
url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/395},
note={Submitted to EUROCRYPT'08 charles.bouillaguet@ens.fr 13798 received 12 Oct 2007},
author={Charles Bouillaguet and Pierre-Alain Fouque and S&eacute;bastien Zimmer and Adi Shamir},
year=2007
}