ESSENCE

1 The algorithm

Authors: Jason Worth Martin
Website: http://www.math.jmu.edu/~martin/essence/
NIST submission package: ESSENCE.zip

Jason Worth Martin - ESSENCE: A Candidate Hashing Algorithm for the NIST Competition

,2008

http://www.math.jmu.edu/~martin/essence/Supporting_Documentation/essence_NIST.pdf
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Author : Jason Worth Martin
Title : ESSENCE: A Candidate Hashing Algorithm for the NIST Competition
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Date : 2008

Jason Worth Martin - ESSENCE: A Family of Cryptographic Hashing Algorithms

,2008

http://www.math.jmu.edu/~martin/essence/Supporting_Documentation/essence_compression.pdf
Bibtex

Author : Jason Worth Martin
Title : ESSENCE: A Family of Cryptographic Hashing Algorithms
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Date : 2008

Jason Worth Martin - ESSENCE: Errata

,2008

http://www.math.jmu.edu/~martin/essence/Supporting_Documentation/essence_errata.pdf
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Author : Jason Worth Martin
Title : ESSENCE: Errata
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2 Cryptanalysis

Type of Analysis	Hash Function Part	Hash Size (n)	Parameters/Variants	Compression Function Calls	Memory Requirements	Reference
observation	compression function	all		-	-	Mouha,Thomsen,Turan
observation	compression function	all		-	-	Mouha et al.
key recovery	block cipher	256	14 rounds	2²²⁵	-	Mouha et al.
key recovery	block cipher	512	14 rounds	2⁴⁵⁰	-	Mouha et al.
pseudo-collision	hash	512	31 rounds	2^254.6	-	Mouha et al.
collision	hash	224/256		2⁹¹	-	Naya-Plasencia et al.
collision	hash	384/512		2¹⁶⁸	-	Naya-Plasencia et al.

A description of this table is given here.

Nicky Mouha, Søren S. Thomsen, Meltem Sönmez Turan - Observations of non-randomness in the ESSENCE compression function

,2009

http://www.mat.dtu.dk/people/S.Thomsen/essence/Essence-obs.pdf
Bibtex

Author : Nicky Mouha, Søren S. Thomsen, Meltem Sönmez Turan
Title : Observations of non-randomness in the ESSENCE compression function
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Date : 2009

Nicky Mouha, Gautham Sekar, Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Thomas Peyrin, Søren S. Thomsen, Meltem Sönmez Turan, Bart Preneel - Cryptanalysis of the ESSENCE Family of Hash Functions

,2009

http://www.nickymouha.be/papers/Essence-MouhaSekar.pdf
Bibtex

Author : Nicky Mouha, Gautham Sekar, Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Thomas Peyrin, Søren S. Thomsen, Meltem Sönmez Turan, Bart Preneel
Title : Cryptanalysis of the ESSENCE Family of Hash Functions
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Date : 2009

María Naya-Plasencia, Andrea Röck, Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Gaëtan Leurent, Willi Meier, Thomas Peyrin - Cryptanalysis of ESSENCE

,2009

http://www.131002.net/data/papers/NRALMP09.pdf
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Author : María Naya-Plasencia, Andrea Röck, Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Gaëtan Leurent, Willi Meier, Thomas Peyrin
Title : Cryptanalysis of ESSENCE
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Date : 2009