Differential and Invertibility Properties of BLAKE

Differential and invertibility properties of BLAKE (full version)

BLAKE is a hash function selected by NIST as one of the 14 second round candidates for the SHA-3 Competition. In this paper, we follow a bottom-up approach to exhibit properties of BLAKE and of its building blocks: based on differential properties of the internal function G, we show that a round of BLAKE is a permutation on the message space, and present an efficient inversion algorithm. For 1....

A Survey of Invertibility and Spectrum Preserving Linear Maps

On Invertibility of Sobolev Mappings

We prove local and global invertibility of Sobolev solutions of certain differential inclusions which prevent the differential matrix from having negative eigenvalues. Our results are new even for quasiregular mappings in two dimensions.

Linear Maps Preserving Invertibility or Spectral Radius on Some $C^{*}$-algebras

Let $A$ be a unital $C^{*}$-algebra which has a faithful state. If $varphi:Arightarrow A$ is a unital linear map which is bijective and invertibility preserving or surjective and spectral radius preserving, then $varphi$ is a Jordan isomorphism. Also, we discuss other types of linear preserver maps on $A$.

Beltrami Operators in the Plane

We determine optimal L-properties for the solutions of the general nonlinear elliptic system in the plane of the form fz = H(z, fz), h ∈ L(C), where H is a measurable function satisfying |H(z,w1) − H(z,w2)| ≤ k|w1 − w2| and k is a constant k < 1. We also establish the precise invertibility and spectral properties in L(C) for the operators I − T μ, I − μT, and T − μ, where T is the Beurling tran...