Indifferentiability of the Sponge Construction with a Restricted Number of Message Blocks

The sponge construction is a popular method for hashing. Quickly after its introduction, the sponge was proven to be tightly indifferentiable from a random oracle up to ≈ 2c/2 queries, where c is the capacity. However, this bound is not tight when the number of message blocks absorbed is restricted...

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Main Author: Charlotte Lefevre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ruhr-Universität Bochum 2023-03-01
Series:IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
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Online Access:https://tosc.iacr.org/index.php/ToSC/article/view/10313