On the security of HMAC and NMAC based on HAVAL, MD4, MD5, SHA-0 and SHA-1 (extended abstract)

  • Authors:
  • Jongsung Kim;Alex Biryukov;Bart Preneel;Seokhie Hong

  • Affiliations:
  • ESAT/SCD-COSIC, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven-Heverlee, Belgium;FDEF, Campus Limpertsberg, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg;ESAT/SCD-COSIC, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven-Heverlee, Belgium;Center for Information Security Technologies(CIST), Korea University, Seoul, Korea

  • Venue:
  • SCN'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

HMAC is a widely used message authentication code and a pseudorandom function generator based on cryptographic hash functions such as MD5 and SHA-1. It has been standardized by ANSI, IETF, ISO and NIST. HMAC is proved to be secure as long as the compression function of the underlying hash function is a pseudorandom function. In this paper we devise two new distinguishers of the structure of HMAC, called differential and rectangle distinguishers, and use them to discuss the security of HMAC based on HAVAL, MD4, MD5, SHA-0 and SHA-1. We show how to distinguish HMAC with reduced or full versions of these cryptographic hash functions from a random function or from HMAC with a random function. We also show how to use our differential distinguisher to devise a forgery attack on HMAC. Our distinguishing and forgery attacks can also be mounted on NMAC based on HAVAL, MD4, MD5, SHA-0 and SHA-1.