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{{Infobox cryptographic hash function| name = MD4| image =| caption =| designers = Ronald Rivest, MD3, [MD4,
MD5 (the fourth in a series) designed by Professor [Ronald Rivest of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990. It implements a
cryptographic hash function for use in message integrity checks. The digest length is 128 bits. The algorithm has influenced later designs, such as the
MD5,
SHA and RIPEMD algorithms.
Weaknesses in MD4 were demonstrated by Den Boer and Bosselaers in a paper published in 1991. In August
2004, researchers reported generating hash collision in MD4 using "hand calculation"http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/199 (collision attack, not
preimage attack), alongside attacks on later hash function designs in the MD4/MD5/SHA/RIPEMD family. The average runtime for a collision attack is 5 seconds on a modern computerhttp://stachliu.com/research_collisions.html.
A variant of MD4 is used in the Ed2k: URI scheme to provide a unique indentifier for a file in the popular eDonkey2000 / eMule P2P networks.
MD4 hashes
The 128-bit (16-byte) MD4 hashes (also termed
message digests) are typically represented as 32-digit
hexadecimal numbers. The following demonstrates a 43-byte ASCII input and the corresponding MD4 hash:
MD4("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog")
= 1bee69a46ba811185c194762abaeae90
Even a small change in the message will (with overwhelming probability) result in a completely different hash, e.g. changing d to c:
MD4("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy '''c'''og")
= b86e130ce7028da59e672d56ad0113df
The hash of the zero-length string is:
MD4("") = 31d6cfe0d16ae931b73c59d7e0c089c0
See also
References
- Hans Dobbertin, 1998. Cryptanalysis of MD4. J. Cryptology 11(4): 253–271
- Hans Dobbertin: Cryptanalysis of MD4. Fast Software Encryption 1996: 53–69
External links
- RFC 1320 - Description of MD4 by Ron Rivest
- On the Security of Encryption Modes of MD4, MD5 and HAVAL
- Improved Collision Attack on MD4
- MD4 in JavaScript, in PHP and online
Collision Attacks
- An Attack on the Last Two Rounds of MD4
- A collision attack on MD4
- Fast MD4 Collision Generator
{{Infobox cryptographic hash function| name = MD4| image =| caption =| designers = Ronald Rivest, MD3, [MD4,
MD5 (the fourth in a series) designed by Professor [Ronald Rivest of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990. It implements a
cryptographic hash function for use in message integrity checks. The digest length is 128 bits. The algorithm has influenced later designs, such as the
MD5, SHA and RIPEMD algorithms.
Weaknesses in MD4 were demonstrated by Den Boer and Bosselaers in a paper published in 1991. In August 2004, researchers reported generating
hash collision in MD4 using "hand calculation"http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/199 (collision attack, not preimage attack), alongside attacks on later hash function designs in the MD4/MD5/SHA/RIPEMD family. The average runtime for a collision attack is 5 seconds on a modern computerhttp://stachliu.com/research_collisions.html.
A variant of MD4 is used in the Ed2k: URI scheme to provide a unique indentifier for a file in the popular eDonkey2000 / eMule P2P networks.
MD4 hashes
The 128-bit (16-byte) MD4 hashes (also termed
message digests) are typically represented as 32-digit hexadecimal numbers. The following demonstrates a 43-byte ASCII input and the corresponding MD4 hash:
MD4("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog")
= 1bee69a46ba811185c194762abaeae90
Even a small change in the message will (with overwhelming probability) result in a completely different hash, e.g. changing d to c:
MD4("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy '''c'''og")
= b86e130ce7028da59e672d56ad0113df
The hash of the zero-length string is:
MD4("") = 31d6cfe0d16ae931b73c59d7e0c089c0
See also
References
- Hans Dobbertin, 1998. Cryptanalysis of MD4. J. Cryptology 11(4): 253–271
- Hans Dobbertin: Cryptanalysis of MD4. Fast Software Encryption 1996: 53–69
External links
- RFC 1320 - Description of MD4 by Ron Rivest
- On the Security of Encryption Modes of MD4, MD5 and HAVAL
- Improved Collision Attack on MD4
- MD4 in JavaScript, in PHP and online
Collision Attacks
- An Attack on the Last Two Rounds of MD4
- A collision attack on MD4
- Fast MD4 Collision Generator
