Paper 2006/021 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2006/021 ↗

Cryptographic hash functions from expander graphs

Denis Charles
Eyal Goren
Kristin Lauter
Abstract

We propose constructing provable collision resistant hash functions from expander graphs. As examples, we investigate two specific families of optimal expander graphs for provable hash function constructions: the families of Ramanujan graphs constructed by Lubotzky-Phillips-Sarnak and Pizer respectively. When the hash function is constructed from one of Pizer's Ramanujan graphs, (the set of supersingular elliptic curves over ${\FF}_{p^2}$ with $\ell$-isogenies, $\ell$ a prime different from $p$), then collision resistance follows from hardness of computing isogenies between supersingular elliptic curves. We estimate the cost per bit to compute these hash functions, and we implement our hash function for several members of the LPS graph family and give actual timings.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2006-01-23: last updated
2006-01-23: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2006/021
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2006/021,
      author = {Denis Charles and Eyal Goren and Kristin Lauter},
      title = {Cryptographic hash functions from expander graphs},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2006/021},
      year = {2006},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/021}
}
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