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by pbsd 5199 days ago
The two models are equivalent, in fact: http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/246

This of course says nothing about how to go about building an actual cipher/hash that withstands all kinds of cryptanalysis.

Edit: apparently not so clear, I'm told: http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.1264

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A better interpretation of that paper is that it is giving an upper [edit: upper bound] on how inequivalent the models are.

Also, that paper was subsequently shown to be fatally flawed. http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.1264

Anyway, yeah, a theoretical diversion.