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Understanding Birthday Attacks in Hashing by Kiran George Chennattucherry is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document discusses hash algorithms and their properties. It describes birthday attacks on hashes and how larger hashes are needed to prevent them. Common hash functions like MD5, SHA-1 and RIPEMD-160 are examined in detail, including their structure, security properties and vulnerabilities. HMAC is also summarized as a way to construct message authentication codes using hash functions with keys.
- Author
- Kiran George Chennattucherry
- Language
- EN