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Davies-Meyer hash construct that turns a block cipher into a one-way compression function that can be used inside a hash function.

Illustration by David Göthberg, Sweden.

Released by David as public domain.

Inspired among others by pictures made by en:User:Dake and pictures in the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Menezes, van Oorschot and Vanstone [1].
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current19:49, 9 February 2006Thumbnail for version as of 19:49, 9 February 2006350 × 390 (15 KB)DavidgothbergOk, other colour. Uglier but more pedagogic since now matches the colour of the compression function box in the Merkle-Damgard picture in the same article.
18:34, 3 February 2006Thumbnail for version as of 18:34, 3 February 2006350 × 390 (15 KB)DavidgothbergIdentical version but with fix so it looks good in Explorer too.
23:34, 30 January 2006Thumbnail for version as of 23:34, 30 January 2006350 × 390 (15 KB)DavidgothbergDavies-Meyer hash construct that turns a block cipher into a hash function. Original illustration for Wikipedia by David Göthberg, Sweden. Inspired among others by pictures made by en:User:Dake and pictures in the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography"

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