Multi-collision Attack on the Compression Functions of MD4 and 3-Pass HAVAL
Hongbo Yu1
and Xiaoyun Wang2 
| (1) |
Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China |
| (2) |
Tsinghua University and Shandong University, China |
Abstract
In this paper, we present a new type of multi-collision attack on the compression functions of both MD4 and 3-Pass HAVAL.
Different from Joux’s multi-collision attack, our method focuses on the multi-collision of the compression function. For MD4,
we utilize two different feasible collision differential paths to find a 4-collision with about 221 MD4 computations. For 3-Pass HAVAL, we can find a 4-collision with complexity about 230 and a 8-near-collision with complexity 29.
Keywords Hash function - multi-collision - multi-near-collision - differential path - sufficient condition
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