Verified Security of Merkle-Damgård

Backes, Michael and Barthe, Gilles and Berg, Matthias and Grégoire, Benjamin and Kunz, César and Skoruppa, Malte and Béguelin, Santiago Zanella
(2012) Verified Security of Merkle-Damgård.
In: Proceedings of the 25th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium - CSF 2012.
Conference: CSF IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (was CSFW)

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Abstract

Cryptographic hash functions provide a basic data authentication mechanism and are used pervasively as building blocks to realize many cryptographic functionalities, including block ciphers, message authentication codes, key exchange protocols, and encryption and digital signature schemes. Since weaknesses in hash functions may imply vulnerabilities in the constructions that build upon them, ensuring their security is essential. Unfortunately, many widely used hash functions, including SHA-1 and MD5, are subject to practical attacks. The search for a secure replacement is one of the most active topics in the field of cryptography. In this paper we report on the first machine-checked and independently-verifiable proofs of collision-resistance and in differentiability of Merkle-Damgård, a construction that underlies many existing hash functions. Our proofs are built and verified using an extension of the Easy Crypt framework, which relies on state-of-the-art verification tools such as automated theorem provers, SMT solvers, and interactive proof assistants.

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