PRG ⇒ Hash function

PRG implies Hash function.

Statement

Migrated verbatim from pseudorandom-generator § Other results:

  • Conversely, any PRG is a one-way function (the seed is a preimage of the output), so OWF PRG

Notes

source: folklore: the claim carried no citation on the page it was migrated from, and none was invented.

class: unstated: no citing page says which notion of reduction is meant. Recording a class the wiki does not state would add a claim.

Recorded during migration and not fixed — these are claims about the source text, not changes to it:

  • Sub-bullet under line 85; states the converse direction and then asserts the EQUIVALENCE ‘OWF > PRG’. The equivalence is a third claim derived from the two directions and should not be migrated as a separate primitive fact.
  • No citation on the converse direction (folklore, but unlabelled).
  • The parenthetical justification (‘the seed is a preimage of the output’) silently relies on the PRG being length-expanding.