Re: collision resistance -- Re: Why is RMAC resistant to birthday attacks?

2002-10-24 Thread David Wagner
There seems to be a question about whether: 1. the internal collision probability of a hash function is bounded by the inverse of the size of its internal state space, or 2. the internal collision probability of a hash function is bounded by the inverse of the square root of size of its

collision resistance -- Re: Why is RMAC resistant to birthday attacks?

2002-10-24 Thread Ed Gerck
There seems to be a question about whether: 1. the internal collision probability of a hash function is bounded by the inverse of the size of its internal state space, or 2. the internal collision probability of a hash function is bounded by the inverse of the square root of size of its