Image:Merkle-Damgard hash big.svg

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Merkle-Damgård hash construction that is used inside almost all modern cryptographic hash functions.

Illustration by David Göthberg, Sweden.

Released by David as public domain.

Remake and extension of en:Image:Merkle-damgard.png made by en:User:Matt Crypto. Also added ideas from en:Image:Merkle-Damgard.png by en:User:Mangojuice.

[edit] Other versions

See Category:Cryptography diagrams for several related diagrams. (That category is on Wikimedia Commons.)

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