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With any $n$ bit hash it is possible to: Find preimages with work $2^n$ on classical computers and $2^{n/2}$ using quantum computers Find collisions with work $2^{n/2}$ on classical computers and $2^{n/3}$ using quantum computers I want to emphasize that these are generic attacks that always work, no matter which concrete hashfunction is used. Grover's ...

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In the majority of multivariate cryptographic schemes (MQ) the encryption/signature function $E$ is a composition of secret affine invertible transformations $A,B$ and a nonlinear transformation $P$ (can be secret or public): $$E = B\circ P\circ A$$ $P$ is typically invertible, and the goal of the scheme is to make $E$ non-invertible even though it is ...

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Probably because they figured that using only one affine map might not be secure. Also, be warned that the Wikipedia article you are citing has serious problems. It is written as though there is a single scheme called "Multivariate Cryptography" with a specific form -- but that is wrong. In fact, multivariate cryptography refers to a class of schemes that ...

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As D.W. notes, this works for the purpose in question. Actually, relying on number theoretic assumptions for the accumulators will give you no benefit as you have observed. However, here is a construction of accumulators from Nyberg in FSE'96, which does not rely on number theoretic or any computational assumptions. This is the paper of Nyberg and you may ...

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As I already outlined in this answer, hash trees in combination with any one-time signature scheme gives the so called Merkle signature scheme. I assume there is some misunderstanding and therefore I sketch merkle signatures subsequently: The idea is to produce $n$ key pairs $(X_i,Y_i)$ of a one-time signature scheme and then to take the hash values ...

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