Paper 2009/113 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2009/113 ↗

Attacks on AURORA-512 and the Double-Mix Merkle-Damgaard Transform

Niels Ferguson
Stefan Lucks
Abstract

We analyse the Double-Mix Merkle-Damgaard construction (DMMD) used in the AURORA family of hash functions. We show that DMMD falls short of providing the expected level of security. Specically, we are able to find 2nd pre-images for AURORA-512 in time 2^{291}, and collisions in time 2^{234.4}. A limited-memory variant finds collisions in time 2^{249}.

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Category
Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2009-03-11: last updated
2009-03-11: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2009/113
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2009/113,
      author = {Niels Ferguson and Stefan Lucks},
      title = {Attacks on AURORA-512 and the Double-Mix Merkle-Damgaard Transform},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2009/113},
      year = {2009},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/113}
}
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