One-way Function - Candidates For One-way Functions

Candidates For One-way Functions

Following are several candidates for one-way functions (as of April 2009). Clearly, it is not known whether these functions are indeed one-way; but extensive research has so far failed to produce an efficient inverting algorithm for any of them.

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