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Title:
On the Collision and Preimage Security of MDC-4 in the Ideal Cipher Model
Authors: Bart Mennink
Abstract:We present the first collision and preimage security analysis of MDC-4, a 24 years old construction for transforming an n-bit block cipher into a 2n-bit hash function. We start with the MDC-4 compression function based on two independent block ciphers, and prove that any adversary with query access to the underlying block ciphers requires at least 2^{5n/8} queries (asymptotically) to find a collision, and at least 2^{5n/4} queries to find a preimage. These results then directly carry over to the MDC-4 hash function design. Next, we consider MDC-4 based on one single block cipher, and confirm that the collision bound carries over to the single block cipher setting. In case of preimage resistance we present a more negative result: for a target image with the same left and right half, a MDC-4 preimage in the single block cipher setting can be found in approximately 2^n queries. Yet, restricted to target images with different left and right halves, the preimage security bound of 2^{5n/4} queries is nevertheless retained.
ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/113
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