phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] Overview of PHC Candidates and Garbage-Collector Attacks

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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:12:48 +0100
From: Krisztián Pintér <pinterkr@...il.com>
To: "discussions@...sword-hashing.net" <discussions@...sword-hashing.net>
Subject: Re: [PHC] Overview of PHC Candidates and Garbage-Collector Attacks

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Jakob Wenzel
<jakob.wenzel@...-weimar.de> wrote:
> https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/881.pdf
> It focuses on comparing general and security properties. Moreover, it
> formally introduces the two attack types garbage-collector attacks and
> weak garbage-collector attacks.

interesting analysis. it could be extended with an aspect raised a
while ago, whether the remnants of a hash can be distinguished from
random. that is, can it be identified, if found in memory. this
actually has the same two flavors as GC and WGC attacks:
identifiability of the remnants having or not having the final hash.