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Given a set S of n keys, a k-perfect hash function (kPHF) is a data structure that maps the keys to the first m integers, where each output integer can be hit by at most k input keys. When m=n/k, the resulting function is called a minimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Stefan Hermann , Sebastian Kirmayer , Hans-Peter Lehmann , Peter Sanders , Stefan Walzer

We present a general method to convert algorithms into faster algorithms for almost-regular input instances. Informally, an almost-regular input is an input in which the maximum degree is larger than the average degree by at most a constant…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Or Zamir

In the paper, we define the concept of the quantum hash generator and offer design, which allows to build a large amount of different quantum hash functions. The construction is based on composition of classical $\epsilon$-universal hash…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-22 Farid Ablayev , Marat Ablayev

Perfect hash functions can potentially be used to compress data in connection with a variety of data management tasks. Though there has been considerable work on how to construct good perfect hash functions, there is a gap between theory…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Fabiano C. Botelho , Rasmus Pagh , Nivio Ziviani

Let $S$ be a subset of a group $G$ (not necessarily abelian) such that $S\,\cap -S$ is empty or contains only elements of order $2$, and let $\mathbf{h}=(h_1,\ldots, h_m)\in \mathbb{N}^m$ and $\mathbf{k}=(k_1, \ldots, k_n)\in \mathbb{N}^n$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Lorenzo Mella , Tommaso Traetta

In their seminal work on authentication, Wegman and Carter propose that to authenticate multiple messages, it is sufficient to reuse the same hash function as long as each tag is encrypted with a one-time pad. They argue that because the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Christopher Portmann

Randomized Hadamard Transforms (RHTs) have emerged as a computationally efficient alternative to the use of dense unstructured random matrices across a range of domains in computer science and machine learning. For several applications such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri , Jelani Nelson

In this paper we present an algorithm to compute keyed hash function (message authentication code MAC). Our approach uses a family of expander graphs of large girth denoted $D(n,q)$, where $n$ is a natural number bigger than one and $q$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Eustrat Zhupa , Monika K. Polak

We present $\mathsf{Miranda}$, the first family of full-domain-hash signatures based on matrix codes. This signature scheme fulfils the paradigm of Gentry, Peikert and Vaikuntanathan ($\mathsf{GPV}$), which gives strong security guarantees.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Alain Couvreur , Thomas Debris-Alazard , Philippe Gaborit , Adrien Vinçotte

In the problem of minimal perfect hashing, we are given a size $k$ subset $\mathcal{A}$ of a universe of keys $[n] = \{1,2, \cdots, n\}$, for which we wish to construct a hash function $h: [n] \to [k]$ such that $h(\cdot)$ maps…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ryan Song , Emre Telatar

The subset cover problem for $k \geq 1$ hash functions, which can be seen as an extension of the collision problem, was introduced in 2002 by Reyzin and Reyzin to analyse the security of their hash-function based signature scheme HORS. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Samuel Bouaziz--Ermann , Alex B. Grilo , Damien Vergnaud

Heffter arrays are combinatorial structures used to construct orthogonal cyclic cycle decompositions and biembeddings of complete graphs onto surfaces. A Heffter array $H(m,n;h,k)$ is an $m \times n$ partially filled array with distinct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Erik Pelttari , Selda Kücükçifçi , E. Şule Yazıcı

In this paper, we describe non invertible matrix in GF(2)which can be used as multiplication matrix in Hill Cipher technique for one way hash algorithm. The matrices proposed are permutation matrices with exactly one entry 1 in each row and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Artan Berisha , Behar Baxhaku , Artan Alidema

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes and near MDS (NMDS) codes are of particular interest in coding theory due to their optimal error-correcting capabilities and wide applications in communication, cryptography, and storage systems. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yang Li , Zhenliang Lu , San Ling , Kwok-Yan Lam

Can we sense our location in an unfamiliar environment by taking a sublinear-size sample of our surroundings? Can we efficiently encrypt a message that only someone physically close to us can decrypt? To solve this kind of problems, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Elette Boyle , Itai Dinur , Niv Gilboa , Yuval Ishai , Nathan Keller , Ohad Klein

We say a subset $C \subseteq \{1,2,\dots,k\}^n$ is a $k$-hash code (also called $k$-separated) if for every subset of $k$ codewords from $C$, there exists a coordinate where all these codewords have distinct values. Understanding the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Venkatesan Guruswami , Andrii Riazanov

We consider the hash function $h(x) = ((ax+b) \bmod p) \bmod n$ where $a,b$ are chosen uniformly at random from $\{0,1,\ldots,p-1\}$. We prove that when we use $h(x)$ in hashing with chaining to insert $n$ elements into a table of size $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Mathias Bæk Tejs Knudsen

The matrix code equivalence problem consists, given two matrix spaces $\mathcal{C},\mathcal{D} \subset \mathbb{F}_q^{m\times n}$ of dimension $k$, in finding invertible matrices $P\in\mathrm{GL}_m(\mathbb{F}_q)$ and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Alain Couvreur , Christophe Levrat

Given a set $S$ of $n$ keys, a perfect hash function for $S$ maps the keys in $S$ to the first $m \geq n$ integers without collisions. It may return an arbitrary result for any key not in $S$ and is called minimal if $m = n$. The most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Hans-Peter Lehmann , Thomas Mueller , Rasmus Pagh , Giulio Ermanno Pibiri , Peter Sanders , Sebastiano Vigna , Stefan Walzer

An interesting challenge for the cryptography community is to design authentication protocols that are so simple that a human can execute them without relying on a fully trusted computer. We propose several candidate authentication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Jeremiah Blocki , Manuel Blum , Anupam Datta , Santosh Vempala