Re: Avalanche Depth of hash functions

Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Fri, 09 Oct 1998 10:45:59 +0100

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Keith Lockstone wrote:

> Let's start by defining a measure: 'Avalanche Depth' which is 1
> when there is just enough avalanche to make the input/output
> probability of a function 0.5. If there is enough avalanche for
> this to happen twice over, then the Avalanche Depth is 2 etc. I

It is not very clear what you mean by 'to happen twice over' since
there is only one single function. Could you explain a bit? Thanks.

M. K. Shen

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