Collisions for Hash Functions
Collisions for Hash Functions
MD4, MD5, HAVAL-128 and RIPEMD
Xiaoyun Wang1, Dengguo Feng2, Xuejia Lai3, Hongbo Yu1
The School of Mathematics and System Science, Shandong University, Jinan250100, China1
Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100080, China2
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China3

[email protected]
revised on August 17, 2004

1 Collisions for MD5
MD5 is the hash function designed by Ron Rivest [9] as a strengthened version of MD4 [8]. In 1993 Bert den
Boer and Antoon Bosselaers [1] found pseudo-collision for MD5 which is made of the same message with two
different sets of initial value. H. Dobbertin[3] found a free-start collision which consists of two different 512-bit
messages with a chosen initial value 0 V I .
ED BA x C B F x C B AC x A V I 763 4 0 D , 97 62 5 0 , 341042 3 0x B , 2375 12 0 : 0 0 0 0 0
Our attack can find many real collisions which are composed of two 1024-bit messages with the original
initial value 0 IV of MD5:
10325476 0 , 98 0 , 89 0 67452301 0 : 0 0 0 0 0 x D badcfe x C xefcdab ,B x A IV
) 0 , 2 ,..., 2 ,..., 2 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 ( , 31 15 31
1 1 C C M M
) 0 , 2 ,..., 2 ,..., 2 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 ( , 31 15 31
2 2 C C N N i i
(non-zeros at position 4,11 and 14)
such that
) , ( 5 ) , ( 5 i i N M MD N M MD .
On IBM P690, it takes about one hour to find such M and M , after that, it takes only 15 seconds to 5
minutes to find i N and i N , so that ) , ( i N M and ) , ( i N M will produce the same hash same value. Moreover,
our attack works for any given initial value.
The following are two pairs of 1024-bit messages producing collisions, the two examples have the same 1-st
half 512 bits.
M
2dd31d1 c4eee6c5 69a3d69 5cf9af98 87b5ca2f ab7e4612 3e580440 897ffbb8
634ad55 2b3f409 8388e483 5a417125 e8255108 9fc9cdf7 f2bd1dd9 5b3c3780
X1
N1
d11d0b96 9c7b41dc f497d8e4 d555655a c79a7335 cfdebf0 66f12930 8fb109d1
797f2775 eb5cd530 baade822 5c15cc79 ddcb74ed 6dd3c55f d80a9bb1 e3a7cc35
M0
2dd31d1 c4eee6c5 69a3d69 5cf9af98 7b5ca2f ab7e4612 3e580440 897ffbb8
634ad55 2b3f409 8388e483 5a41f125 e8255108 9fc9cdf7 72bd1dd9 5b3c3780
X1
N1
d11d0b96 9c7b41dc f497d8e4 d555655a 479a7335 cfdebf0 66f12930 8fb109d1
797f2775 eb5cd530 baade822 5c154c79 ddcb74ed 6dd3c55f 580a9bb1 e3a7cc35
H 9603161f f41fc7ef 9f65ffbc a30f9dbf
M
2dd31d1 c4eee6c5 69a3d69 5cf9af98 87b5ca2f ab7e4612 3e580440 897ffbb8
634ad55 2b3f409 8388e483 5a417125 e8255108 9fc9cdf7 f2bd1dd9 5b3c3780
X2
N2
313e82d8 5b8f3456 d4ac6dae c619c936 b4e253dd fd03da87 6633902 a0cd48d2
42339fe9 e87e570f 70b654ce 1e0da880 bc2198c6 9383a8b6 2b65f996 702af76f
M0
2dd31d1 c4eee6c5 69a3d69 5cf9af98 7b5ca2f ab7e4612 3e580440 897ffbb8
634ad55 2b3f409 8388e483 5a41f125 e8255108 9fc9cdf7 72bd1dd9 5b3c3780


313e82d8 5b8f3456 d4ac6dae c619c936 34e253dd fd03da87 6633902 a0cd48d2
42339fe9 e87e570f 70b654ce 1e0d2880 bc2198c6 9383a8b6 ab65f996 702af76f
H 8d5e7019 6324c015 715d6b58 61804e08
Table 1 Two pairs of collisions for MD5
2 Collisions for HAVAL-128
HAVAL is proposed in [10]. HAVAL is a hashing algorithm that can compress messages of any length in 3,4
or 5 passes and produce a fingerprint of length 128, 160, 192 or 224 bits.
Attack on a reduced version for HAVAL was given by P. R. Kasselman and W T Penzhorn [7], which
consists of last rounds for HAVAL-128. We break the full HAVAL-128 with only about the 26 HAVAL
computations. Here we give two examples of collisions of HAVAL-128, where
) 0 ,..., 0 , 2 ,.... 2 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 2 ( , 8 12 1 i i i C C M M
with non-zeros at position 0,11,18, and 31 ,... 2 , 1 , 0 i , such that ) ( ) ( M HAVAL M HAVAL .
M1
6377448b d9e59f18 f2aa3cbb d6cb92ba ee544a44 879fa576 1ca34633 76ca5d4f
a67a8a42 8d3adc8b b6e3d814 5630998d 86ea5dcd a739ae7b 54fd8e32 acbb2b36
38183c9a b67a9289 c47299b2 27039ee5 dd555e14 839018d8 aabbd9c9 d78fc632
fff4b3a7 40000096 7f466aac fffffbc0 5f4016d2 5f4016d0 12e2b0 f4307f87
M1
6377488b d9e59f18 f2aa3cbb d6cb92ba ee544a44 879fa576 1ca34633 76ca5d4f
a67a8a42 8d3adc8b b6e3d814 d630998d 86ea5dcd a739ae7b 54fd8e32 acbb2b36
38183c9a b67a9289 c47299ba 27039ee5 dd555e14 839018d8 aabbd9c9 d78fc632
fff4b3a7 40000096 7f466aac fffffbc0 5f4016d2 5f4016d0 12e2b0 f4307f87
H 95b5621c ca62817a a48dacd8 6d2b54bf
M2
6377448b d9e59f18 f2aa3cbb d6cb92ba ee544a44 879fa576 1ca34633 76ca5d4f
a67a8a42 8d3adc8b b6e3d814 5630998d 86ea5dcd a739ae7b 54fd8e32 acbb2b36
38183c9a b67a9289 c47299b2 27039ee5 dd555e14 839018d8 aabbd9c9 d78fc632
fff4b3a7 40000096 7f466aac fffffbc0 5f4016d2 5f4016d0 12e2b0 f5b16963

6377488b d9e59f18 f2aa3cbb d6cb92ba ee544a44 879fa576 1ca34633 76ca5d4f
a67a8a42 8d3adc8b b6e3d814 d630998d 86ea5dcd a739ae7b 54fd8e32 acbb2b36
38183c9a b67a9289 c47299ba 27039ee5 dd555e14 839018d8 aabbd9c9 d78fc632
fff4b3a7 40000096 7f466aac fffffbc0 5f4016d2 5f4016d0 12e2b0 f5b16963
H b0e99492 d64eb647 5149ef30 4293733c
Table 2 Two pairs of collision, where i=11 and these two examples differ only at the last word
3 Collisions for MD4
MD4 is designed by R. L. Rivest[8] . Attack of H. Dobbertin in Eurocrypto'96[2] can find collision with
probability 1/222. Our attack can find collision with hand calculation, such that
) 0 , 0 , 0 , 2 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 2 2 , 2 , 0 ( , 16 31 28 31 C C M M
and ) ( 4 ) ( 4 M MD M MD .
M1
4d7a9c83 56cb927a b9d5a578 57a7a5ee de748a3c dcc366b3 b683a020 3b2a5d9f
c69d71b3 f9e99198 d79f805e a63bb2e8 45dd8e31 97e31fe5 2794bf08 b9e8c3e9
M1
4d7a9c83 d6cb927a 29d5a578 57a7a5ee de748a3c dcc366b3 b683a020 3b2a5d9f
c69d71b3 f9e99198 d79f805e a63bb2e8 45dc8e31 97e31fe5 2794bf08 b9e8c3e9
H 5f5c1a0d 71b36046 1b5435da 9b0d807a
M2
4d7a9c83 56cb927a b9d5a578 57a7a5ee de748a3c dcc366b3 b683a020 3b2a5d9f
c69d71b3 f9e99198 d79f805e a63bb2e8 45dd8e31 97e31fe5 f713c240 a7b8cf69

4d7a9c83 d6cb927a 29d5a578 57a7a5ee de748a3c dcc366b3 b683a020 3b2a5d9f
c69d71b3 f9e99198 d79f805e a63bb2e8 45dc8e31 97e31fe5 f713c240 a7b8cf69
H e0f76122 c429c56c ebb5e256 b809793
Table 3 Two pairs of collisions for MD4
4 Collisions for RIPEMD
RIPEMD was developed for the RIPE project (RACE Integrrity Primitives Evalustion, 1988-1992). In
1995, H. Dobbertin proved that the reduced version RIPEMD with two rounds is not collision-free[4]. We show
that the full RIPEMD also isnOt collision-free. The following are two pairs of collisions for RIPEMD:
) 2 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 2 2 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 2 , 0 , 0 , 0 ( , 31 31 18 20 ' C C M M i i
M1
579faf8e 9ecf579 574a6aba 78413511 a2b410a4 ad2f6c9f b56202c 4d757911
bdeaae7 78bc91f2 47bc6d7d 9abdd1b1 a45d2015 817104ff 264758a8 61064ea5
M1
579faf8e 9ecf579 574a6aba 78513511 a2b410a4 ad2f6c9f b56202c 4d757911
bdeaae7 78bc91f2 c7c06d7d 9abdd1b1 a45d2015 817104ff 264758a8 e1064ea5
H 1fab152 1654a31b 7a33776a 9e968ba7
M2
579faf8e 9ecf579 574a6aba 78413511 a2b410a4 ad2f6c9f b56202c 4d757911
bdeaae7 78bc91f2 47bc6d7d 9abdd1b1 a45d2015 a0a504ff b18d58a8 e70c66b6

579faf8e 9ecf579 574a6aba 78513511 a2b410a4 ad2f6c9f b56202c 4d757911
bdeaae7 78bc91f2 c7c06d7d 9abdd1b1 a45d2015 a0a504ff b18d58a8 670c66b6
H 1f2c159f 569b31a6 dfcaa51a 25665d24
Table 4 The collisions for RIPEMD
5 Remark
Besides the above hash functions we break, there are some other hash functions not having ideal security. For
example, collision of SHA-0 [6] can be found with about 240 computations of SHA-0 algorithms, and a collision
for HAVAL-160 can be found with probability 1/232.
Note that the messages and all other values in this paper are composed of 32-bit words, in each 32-bit word
the most left byte is the most significant byte.
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