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Dana Mackenzie |
Although her hash function (developed with colleagues Denis Charles and Eyal Goren) is provably secure, Lauter admits that it is not yet fast enough to compete with iterative hash functions. However, for applications in which speed is less of an issue--for example, where the files to be hashed are relatively small--Lauter believes it might be a winner.
Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)