On an almost-universal hash function family with applications to authentication and secrecy codes

Khodakhast Bibak, Bruce M. Kapron, Venkatesh Srinivasan +1

Universal hashing, discovered by Carter and Wegman in 1979, has many important applications in computer science. MMH${}^{\ast }$, which was shown to be $\Delta$-universal by Halevi and Krawczyk…