Improved collision attack on the hash function proposed at PKC'98

  • Authors:
  • Florian Mendel;Norbert Pramstaller;Christian Rechberger

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK), Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria;Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK), Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria;Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK), Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

  • Venue:
  • ICISC'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Information Security and Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this article, we present an improved collision attack on the hash function proposed by Shin et al. at PKC'98. The attack has a complexity of about 220.5 hash computations, while the previous attack of Chang et al. presented at SAC 2002 has a complexity of about 237.13 hash computations. In the analysis of the hash function we combined existing approaches with recent results in cryptanalysis of hash functions. We show that message-dependent rotations can be exploited to construct collisions. The weak design of the step function facilitates high-probability multi-block collisions.