Cryptanalysis of round-reduced HAS-160

  • Authors:
  • Florian Mendel;Tomislav Nad;Martin Schläffer

  • 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'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Information Security and Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

HAS-160 is an iterated cryptographic hash function that is standardized by the Korean government and widely used in Korea. In this paper, we present a semi-free-start collision for 65 (out of 80) steps of HAS-160 with practical complexity. The basic attack strategy is to construct a long differential characteristic by connecting two short ones by a complex third characteristic. The short characteristics are constructed using techniques from coding theory. To connect them, we are using an automatic search algorithm for the connecting characteristic utilizing the nonlinearity of the step function.