[Resource Topic] 2004/062: On the Impossibility of Highly-Efficient Blockcipher-Based Hash Functions

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Title:
On the Impossibility of Highly-Efficient Blockcipher-Based Hash Functions

Authors: John Black, Martin Cochran, Thomas Shrimpton

Abstract:

Fix a small, non-empty set of blockcipher keys K.
We say a blockcipher-based hash function is “highly-efficient”
if it makes exactly one blockcipher call for each message block hashed, and all blockcipher calls use a key from K. Although a few
highly-efficient constructions have been proposed, no one has been
able to prove their security. In this paper we prove, in the
ideal-cipher model, that it is impossible to construct a
highly-efficient iterated blockcipher-based hash function that is
provably secure. Our result implies, in particular, that the Tweakable Chain Hash (TCH) construction suggested by Liskov, Rivest, and Wagner is not correct under an instantiation suggested for this
construction, nor can TCH be correctly instantiated by any other
efficient means.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/062

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