MD6

1 The algorithm

• Authors: Ron Rivest, Benjamin Agre, Daniel V. Bailey, Christopher Crutchfield, Yevgeniy Dodis, Kermin Elliott Fleming, Asif Khan, Jayant Krishnamurthy, Yuncheng Lin, Leo Reyzin, Emily Shen, Jim Sukha, Drew Sutherland, Eran Tromer, Yiqun Lisa Yin
• Website: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cis/md6/
• NIST submission package: MD6.zip

Ronald L. Rivest - The MD6 hash function -- A proposal to NIST for SHA-3

,2008

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cis/md6/submitted-2008-10-27/Supporting_Documentation/md6_report.pdf
Bibtex

Author : Ronald L. Rivest
Title : The MD6 hash function -- A proposal to NIST for SHA-3
In : -
Address :
Date : 2008

2 Cryptanalysis

Type of Analysis	Hash Function Part	Hash Size (n)	Parameters/Variants	Compression Function Calls	Memory Requirements	Reference
non-randomness	reduced compression		18 rounds	?	?	Aumasson,Meier
key-recovery	reduced compression		15 rounds	?	?	Dinur,Shamir

A description of this table is given here.

Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Willi Meier - Personal communication (nonrandomness on the reduced-round compression function)

,2008

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cis/md6/submitted-2008-10-27/Supporting_Documentation/md6_report.pdf
Bibtex

Author : Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Willi Meier
Title : Personal communication (nonrandomness on the reduced-round compression function)
In : -
Address :
Date : 2008

Itai Dinur, Adi Shamir - Personal communication (key recovery on the reduced-round compression function)

,2008

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cis/md6/submitted-2008-10-27/Supporting_Documentation/md6_report.pdf
Bibtex

Author : Itai Dinur, Adi Shamir
Title : Personal communication (key recovery on the reduced-round compression function)
In : -
Address :
Date : 2008