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Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).

Phrase: Merkle–Damgård construction | Statement: [SHA-2, basedOn, Merkle–Damgård construction]

Target entity: Merkle–Damgård construction
Context triple: [SHA-2, basedOn, Merkle–Damgård construction]

• A. Merkle–Damgård construction chosen
  The Merkle–Damgård construction is a fundamental method for building collision-resistant cryptographic hash functions from fixed-size compression functions, used in many classic hash algorithms like MD5 and SHA-1.
• B. Davies–Meyer compression function
  The Davies–Meyer compression function is a classic construction in cryptography that builds a hash function’s compression step from a block cipher by feeding the cipher’s output back into the input via XOR.
• C. Hash-based Message Authentication Code
  Hash-based Message Authentication Code (HMAC) is a cryptographic mechanism that uses a hash function and a secret key to verify both the integrity and authenticity of a message.
• D. Whirlpool hash function
  Whirlpool is a cryptographic hash function designed by Vincent Rijmen and Paulo S. L. M. Barreto, known for its wide-pipe construction and strong security properties suitable for digital signatures and data integrity.
• E. Message-Digest Algorithm 5
  Message-Digest Algorithm 5 (MD5) is a widely known but now cryptographically broken hash function that produces a 128-bit hash value and was once commonly used for checksums and data integrity verification.
• F. None of above.
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.