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Re: AES as a hash function?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Gillogly)
Tue Oct 3 11:41:19 2000
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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 23:32:53 +0000
From: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
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To: Bram Cohen <bram@gawth.com>
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Bram Cohen wrote:
>
> The announcement didn't mention Rijndael's applicability as a hash
> function. I thing I remember mention in earlier AES documents that it
This is covered in the materials submitted by the Rijndael team,
in the Algorithm Specification at
http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/round2/r2algs.htm
in section 13.
> UHASH is also strictly 128-bit, it would be nice for there to be 256-bit,
> 384-bit, and 512-bit versions as well, to keep parity with the AES.
I expect SHA variants of these lengths to be available before long
from NSA via NIST.
--
Jim Gillogly
Trewesday, 11 Winterfilth S.R. 2000, 23:28
12.19.7.10.15, 11 Men 18 Chen, Eighth Lord of Night
