FOBEZ-256 (A hashing function using Bezier curve)

Hash functions play a vital role in Information Security by providing message integrity. In any digital signature schemes the message will be hashed before getting signed. This will ensure message authentication and data integrity. Various cryptographic function such as MD4, MD5, SHA-0, SHA-1, RIPEMD etc., are available in literature but most of them are vulnerable to attacks. This project is an attempt to construct a new secured Hash function FOBEZ-256 that will withstand the known attacks in literature. The output of the hash function is a 256 bit message digest which cannot be viewed as whole number instead the output will be an image file. The advantage of this method is hard to construct a hash value from the Bezier curve.