A PRELIMINARY EXPLORATION OF STRIPED HASHING - A probabilistic scheme to speed up existing hash algorithms

George I. Davida, Jeremy A. Hansen

2005

Abstract

Hash algorithms generate a fixed-size output from a variable-size input. Typical algorithms will process every byte of the input to generate their output, which, on a very large input, can be time consuming. The hashes’ potential slowness, coupled with recently reported attacks on the MD5 and SHA-1 hash algorithms, prompted a look at hashing from a different perspective. By generating several “striped” hashes, we may speed up the hash verification by a factor of the chosen stripe size.

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I. Davida G. and A. Hansen J. (2005). A PRELIMINARY EXPLORATION OF STRIPED HASHING - A probabilistic scheme to speed up existing hash algorithms . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on e-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE, ISBN 972-8865-32-5, pages 364-367. DOI: 10.5220/0001414003640367


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@conference{icete05,
author={George I. Davida and Jeremy A. Hansen},
title={A PRELIMINARY EXPLORATION OF STRIPED HASHING - A probabilistic scheme to speed up existing hash algorithms},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on e-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE,},
year={2005},
pages={364-367},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001414003640367},
isbn={972-8865-32-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on e-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE,
TI - A PRELIMINARY EXPLORATION OF STRIPED HASHING - A probabilistic scheme to speed up existing hash algorithms
SN - 972-8865-32-5
AU - I. Davida G.
AU - A. Hansen J.
PY - 2005
SP - 364
EP - 367
DO - 10.5220/0001414003640367