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/
• Specification:

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

• Aumasson, Meier (mentioned in original proposal text): nonrandomness observed on a reduced version of the compression function with 18 rounds, instead of at least 80 in the original MD6.
• Dinur, Shamir (mentioned in original proposal text): cube attack on a reduced version of the compression function with 15 rounds, instead of at least 80 in the original MD6.