International Association for Cryptologic Research

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IACR News item: 07 December 2011

PhD Database PhD Database
Name: Florian Mendel
Topic: Analysis of Cryptographic Hash Functions
Category: secret-key cryptography

Description: This thesis is devoted to the analysis of cryptographic hash functions. In the last years significant progress has been made in the cryptanalysis of hash functions. As a consequence most of the hash functions used today have been broken or show weaknesses. The collision attacks on the widely used hash functions MD5 and SHA-1 have attracted a lot of attention in the cryptographic community. In view of these developments, this thesis focuses on the analysis of alternative hash functions such as GOST, RIPEMD-160, Tiger, and Whirlpool.[...]
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