Analysis of RIPEMD-160: New Collision Attacks and Finding Characteristics with MILP

ePrint Report: Analysis of RIPEMD-160: New Collision Attacks and Finding Characteristics with MILP

Fukang Liu, Gaoli Wang, Santanu Sarkar, Ravi Anand, Willi Meier, Yingxin Li, Takanori Isobe

The hash function RIPEMD-160 is an ISO/IEC standard and is being used to generate the bitcoin address together with SHA-256. Despite the fact that many hash functions in the MD-SHA hash family have been broken, RIPEMD-160 remains secure and the best collision attack could only reach up to 34 out of 80 rounds, …

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