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Preimage attack

Known as: First preimage attack, Preimage resistance, Preimage attacks 
In cryptography, a preimage attack on cryptographic hash functions tries to find a message that has a specific hash value. A cryptographic hash… 
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2020
2020
Automatic Search of Meet-in-the-Middle Preimage Attacks on AES-like Hashing
. The Meet-in-the-Middle (MITM) preimage attack is highly effective in breaking the preimage resistance of many hash functions… 
Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
A Quantum Algorithm for Computing Isogenies between Supersingular Elliptic Curves
In this paper, we describe a quantum algorithm for computing an isogeny between any two supersingular elliptic curves defined… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Preimages for Step-Reduced SHA-2
In this paper, we present preimage attacks on up to 43-step SHA-256 (around 67% of the total 64 steps) and 46-step SHA-512… 
2009
2009
Security of Cyclic Double Block Length Hash Functions
We provide a proof of security for a huge class of double block length hash function that we will call Cyclic-DM . Using this… 
2009
2009
Inverse operation and preimage attack on BioHashing
BioHashing generates a BioCode from a user's biometric features by projecting them onto user-specific random vectors and then… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Preimage Attacks on 3-Pass HAVAL and Step-Reduced MD5
This paper presents preimage attacks on the hash functions 3-pass HAVAL and step-reduced MD5. Introduced in 1992 and 1991… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Second Preimage Attacks on Dithered Hash Functions
We develop a new generic long-message second preimage attack, based on combining the techniques in the second preimage attacks of… 
2008
2008
Preimage Attacks on Step-Reduced MD5
In this paper, we propose preimage attacks on step-reduced MD5. We show that a preimage of a 44-step MD5 can be computed to a… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Preimage Attacks on 3, 4, and 5-Pass HAVAL
This paper proposes preimage attacks on hash function HAVAL whose output length is 256 bits. This paper has three main… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
The Second-Preimage Attack on MD4
In Eurocrypt’05, Wang et al. presented new techniques to find collisions of Hash function MD4. The techniques are not only… 
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