The Merkle–Damgård construction — used in the design of many popular hash algorithms such as MD5, SHA1 and SHA2 — is a method of building collision-resistant cryptographic hash functions from collision-resistant one-way compression functions. The Merkle–Damgård construction is also referred to as the Merkle–Damgård hash function.
The Merkle–Damgård construction — used in the design of many popular hash algorithms such as MD5, SHA1 and SHA2 — is a method of building collision-resistant cryptographic hash functions from collision-resistant one-way compression functions. The Merkle–Damgård construction is also referred to as the Merkle–Damgård hash function.
