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Cryptanalysis of Reduced-Round Whirlwind

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Cryptanalysis of Reduced-Round Whirlwind
The Whirlwind hash function, which outputs a 512-bit digest, was designed by Barreto et al. and published by Design, Codes and Cryptography in 2010. In this paper, we provide a thorough cryptanalysis on Whirlwind. Firstly, we focus on security properties at the hash function level by presenting (second) preimage, collision and distinguishing attacks on reduced-round Whirlwind. In order to launch the preimage attack, we have to slightly tweak the original Meet-in-the-Middle preimage attack framework on AES-like compression functions by partially fixing the values of the state. Based on this slightly tweaked framework, we are able to construct several new and interesting preimage attacks on reduced-round Whirlpool and AES hashing modes as well. Secondly, we investigate security properties of the reduced-round components of Whirlwind, including semi-free-start and free-start (near) collision attacks on the compression function, and a limited-birthday distinguisher on the inner permutatio...
Bingke Ma, Bao Li, Ronglin Hao, Xiaoqian Li
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Type Journal
Year 2015
Where ACISP
Authors Bingke Ma, Bao Li, Ronglin Hao, Xiaoqian Li
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