Finding good differential patterns for attacks on SHA-1

  • Authors:
  • Krystian Matusiewicz;Josef Pieprzyk

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Advanced Computing – Algorithms and Cryptography, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia;Centre for Advanced Computing – Algorithms and Cryptography, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

  • Venue:
  • WCC'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Coding and Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper we analyse properties of the message expansion algorithm of SHA-1 and describe a method of finding differential patterns that may be used to attack reduced versions of SHA-1. We show that the problem of finding optimal differential patterns for SHA-1 is equivalent to the problem of finding minimal weight codeword in a large linear code. Finally, we present a number of patterns of different lengths suitable for finding collisions and near-collisions and discuss some bounds on minimal weights of them.