Differential cryptanalysis mod 232 with applications to MD5

  • Authors:
  • Thomas A. Berson

  • Affiliations:
  • Anagram Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA

  • Venue:
  • EUROCRYPT'92 Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Theory and application of cryptographic techniques
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

We introduce the idea of differential cryptanalysis mod 232 and apply it to the MD5 message digest algorithm. We derive a theory for differential cryptanalysis of the circular shift function. We demonstrate a high-probability differentials which leave the message digest register unchanged for each of MD5's four rounds, and explain how more such differentials may be calculated.