- Terminology; a lot of alternative names for the crypto properties and functions which hold them; distinction between Keyed and unkeyed hash functions (stick to unkeyed here);
Discussion of the "Merkle-Damgård structure" that MD4/5, SHA etc follow; a diagram would be appropriate.Hash functions constructed from block ciphers - Davies-Meyer etc. (Applied Cryptography goes into detail on these)Hash functions used to construct other primitives; e.g. block ciphers from hash functions (e.g. SHACAL, BEAR and LION), stream ciphers (SEAL), MACs from hash functions (HMAC) and PRNGs.- Discuss recommended sizes for hash functions; quantify "hard", MD5CRK. Perhaps mention the birthday paradox?
- Provide a little detail about specific, popular hash functions
- Give an example of Yuval's collision attack on signing hashed messages.
- History?
regarding this statement in the article, " Therefore, Alice writes down her solution, appends a random nonce, computes its hash and tells Bob the hash value (whilst keeping the solution secret)." Please clarify if Alice gives Bob the nonce in addition to the hash.- Discuss reverse lookup tables (such as http://md5.crysm.net/)
- (Non technical) For some reason this article does not seem to print as a pdf from Wikipedia. I have no problem printing a pdf from my pc. Printing was tried on both Firefox and IE.
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