[Resource Topic] 2011/019: Collision Resistance of the JH Hash Function

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Title:
Collision Resistance of the JH Hash Function

Authors: Jooyoung Lee, Deukjo Hong

Abstract:

In this paper, we analyze collision resistance of the JH hash function in the ideal primitive model. The JH hash function is one of the five SHA-3 candidates accepted for the final round of evaluation. The JH hash function uses a mode of operation based on a permutation, while its security has been elusive even in the random permutation model. One can find a collision for the JH compression function only with two backward queries to the basing primitive. However, the security is significantly enhanced in iteration. For c\leq n/2, we prove that the JH hash function using an ideal n-bit permutation and producing c-bit outputs by truncation is collision resistant up to O(2^{c/2}) queries. This bound implies that the JH hash function provides the optimal collision resistance in the random permutation model.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/019

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