> DES, being extremely hardware friendly, can be (ab)used to > make a strong one-way hash. (E.g., raw input into both key and data maps > 56+64 -> uniformly distributed 64 bits.)
However, when used in this way, DES is not an especially good hash function. For instance, it is easy to find collisions, to find pre-images, and so on. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
