Barney Wolff wrote: >This leads me to ask what may be a laughably naive question: >Do we even know that the popular hash functions can actually generate >all 2^N values of their outputs?
It seems very unlikely that they can generate all 2^N outputs (under current knowledge). However, they satisfy the next-best thing: their output appears to be indistinguishable from uniform to computationally-bounded observers, hence it's "as good as" if they could generate all 2^N outputs for most purposes. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]