Thursday, November 1, 2012

8.4-8.5 and 8.7, due Fri Nov 2

1. I didn't understand why concatenation of hash functions does not apparently strengthen its preimage resistance. Or how they derived running times to find collisions.

2. I loved reading about the birthday paradox. I told my wife and she was (and I think still is skeptical that the chances are that high haha). 8.4.1 reminded me of BSGS.

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