Tiger (cryptography)
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In cryptography, Tiger is a cryptographic hash function designed by Ross Anderson and Eli Biham in 1995 for efficiency on 64-bit platforms. The size of a Tiger hash value is 192 bits. Truncated versions (known as Tiger/128 and Tiger/160) can be used for compatibility with protocols assuming a particular hash size. Unlike the SHA-2 family, no distinguishing initialization values are defined; they are simply prefixes of the full Tiger/192 hash value.
Tiger2 is a variant of Tiger which uses the same message-end padding as MD5 and SHA, rather than the slightly different padding used in MD4. It is otherwise identical. A formal specification of Tiger2 has not yet been released, but test vectors are available.
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[edit] Algorithm
Tiger is designed using the nearly universal Merkle-Damgård paradigm. The one-way compression function operates on 64-bit words, maintaining 3 words of state and processing 8 words of data. There are 24 rounds, using a combination of operation mixing with XOR and addition/subtraction, rotates, and S-box lookups, and a fairly intricate key scheduling algorithm for deriving 24 round keys from the 8 input words.[1]
Although fast in software, Tiger's large S-boxes (4 S-boxes, each with 256 64-bit entries totals 8 KiB) make implementations in hardware or small microcontrollers difficult.
[edit] Usage
Tiger is frequently used in Merkle hash tree form, where it is referred to as TTH (Tiger Tree Hash). TTH is used by many clients on the Direct Connect and Gnutella file sharing networks.
Tiger was considered for inclusion in the OpenPGP standard, but was abandoned in favor of RIPEMD-160.
[edit] Examples
The "testtiger" program at the author's homepage was intended to allow easy testing of the test source code, rather than to define any particular print order. Actually the specification of Tiger do not define the way the output of Tiger is printed, however its testvectors for NESSIE are using the quasi-standard printing method for hashes which is the big endian byte order (this print order is also used by MD5 and SHA1 hash outputs for example, as it allows also humans to read the number from left to right).
Therefore in the example below the 192-bit (24-byte) Tiger hashes are represented as 48-digit hexadecimal numbers in big endian byte order. The following demonstrates a 43-byte ASCII input and the corresponding Tiger hashes:
Tiger("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog") =
6d12a41e72e644f017b6f0e2f7b44c6285f06dd5d2c5b075
Tiger2("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog") =
976abff8062a2e9dcea3a1ace966ed9c19cb85558b4976d8
Even a small change in the message will (with overwhelming probability) result in a completely different hash, e.g. changing d to c:
Tiger("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy cog") =
a8f04b0f7201a0d728101c9d26525b31764a3493fcd8458f
Tiger2("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy cog") =
09c11330283a27efb51930aa7dc1ec624ff738a8d9bdd3df
The hash of the zero-length string is:
Tiger("") =
3293ac630c13f0245f92bbb1766e16167a4e58492dde73f3
Tiger2("") =
4441be75f6018773c206c22745374b924aa8313fef919f41
[edit] Cryptanalysis
Unlike MD5 or SHA-0/1, there are no known attacks on the full 24-round Tiger. [2] While MD5 processes its state with 64 simple 32-bit operations per 512-bit block and SHA-1 with 80, Tiger updates its state with a total of 144 such operations per 512-bit block, additionally strengthened by large S-box look-ups.
John Kelsey and Stefan Lucks have found a collision-finding attack on 16-round Tiger with a time complexity equivalent to about 244 compression function invocations and another attack that finds pseudo-near collisions in 20-round Tiger with work less than that of 248 compression function invocations.[2] Florian Mendel et al. have improved upon these attacks by describing a collision attack spanning 19 rounds of Tiger, and a 22-round pseudo-near-collision attack. These attacks require a work effort equivalent to about 262 and 244 evaluations of the Tiger compression function, respectively.[3]
[edit] See also
- List of hash functions
- Serpent — A block cipher by the same authors
[edit] References
- ^ Ross Anderson and Eli Biham, Tiger — A Fast New Hash Function, proceedings of Fast Software Encryption 3, Cambridge, 1996
- ^ a b John Kelsey and Stefan Lucks, Collisions and Near-Collisions for Reduced-Round Tiger, proceedings of Fast Software Encryption 13, Graz, 2006 (PDF)
- ^ Florian Mendel, Bart Preneel, Vincent Rijmen, Hirotaka Yoshida, and Dai Watanabe, Update on Tiger, proceedings of Indocrypt 7, Kolkata, 2006
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