The keyed optical Hash function based on cascaded phase-truncated Fourier transforms

An approach for constructing keyed optical Hash function (KOHF) is proposed, which is based on cascaded phase-truncated Fourier transforms (CPTFTs). The KOHF is created from a two-step one-way encryption process with a secret key imbedded. The non-linearity and one-way functionality is introduced by cascaded optical Fourier transforms with the phase-truncation operations, which could be implemented either digitally or optically. Once two 64-bit keyed Hash values are obtained in the two-step one-way encryption processes, respectively, they are then combined to form a final 128-bit keyed Hash value, which can also be regarded as a message authentication code (MAC). Moreover, the avalanche effect is also evaluated to show the performance of constructed KOHF with a set of numerical experiments.