One-way compression function: Difference between revisions

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Variations of this method replace XOR with any other group operation, such as addition on 32-bit unsigned integers.

Davies-Meyer compression functions make it easy to find fixed-points, though these can't be used directly in collision attacks when the compression function is used in the Damgård-Merkle construction.

:''Note: There is some more information in the [[Davies-Meyer hash|old Davies-Meyer article]] that has not been merged to this article yet.''

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