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Practical Attacks on AES-like Cryptographic Hash Functions

Despite the great interest in rebound attacks on AES-like hash functions since 2009, we report on a rather generic, albeit keyschedule-dependent, algorithmic improvement: A new …

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Stefan Kölbl
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Differential Cryptanalysis of Keccak Variants

In October 2012, NIST has announced Keccak as the winner of the SHA-3 cryptographic hash function competition. Recently, at CT-RSA 2013, NIST brought up the idea to standardize …

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Stefan Kölbl
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Practical Attacks on the Maelstrom-0 Compression Function

In this paper we present attacks on the compression function of Maelstrom-0. It is based on the Whirlpool hash function standardized by ISO and was designed to be a faster and more …

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Stefan Kölbl