Wang Xiaoyun

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wang.

Wang Xiaoyun (simplified Chinese: 王小云; traditional Chinese: 王小雲; pinyin: Wáng Xiǎoyún) (born 1966) is a researcher and professor in the Department of Mathematics and System Science, Shandong University, Shandong, China.[1]

At the rump session of CRYPTO 2004, she and co-authors demonstrated collision attacks against MD5, SHA-0 and other related hash functions. (A collision occurs when two distinct messages result in the same hash function output). They received a standing ovation for their work.[2]

In February 2005 it was reported that Wang and co-authors had found a method to find collisions in the SHA-1 hash function, which is used in many of today's mainstream security products.[3] Their attack is estimated to require less than 269 operations, far fewer than the 280 operations previously thought needed to find a collision in SHA-1. Their work was published at the CRYPTO '05 conference. In August 2005, an improved attack on SHA-1, discovered by Xiaoyun Wang, Andrew Yao and Frances Yao, was announced at the CRYPTO conference rump session. The time complexity of the new attack is claimed to be 263.[4]

Wang was born in Zhucheng, Shandong Province. She gained bachelor (1987), master (1990) and doctorate (1993) degrees at Shandong University, and subsequently lectured in the mathematics department from 1993.[5] Her doctoral advisor was Pan Chengdong.[6] Wang was appointed assistant professor in 1995, and full professor in 2001. She became the Chen Ning Yang Professor of the Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University in 2005.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Key Lab of Cryptologic Technology and Information Security, Shandong University, retrieved 2015-07-21.
  2. ↑ Randall, James (March 11, 2005), Hash Function Update Due to Potential Weaknesses Found in SHA-1, RSA Laboratories, retrieved 2015-07-21.
  3. ↑ "Chinese Professor Cracks Fifth Data Security Algorithm", The Epoch Times, January 11, 2007.
  4. ↑ Leyden, John (August 19, 2005), "SHA-1 compromised further: Crypto researchers point the way to feasible attack", The Register.
  5. 1 2 Tan Kah Kee Award in Information Technological Sciences, Tan Kah Kee Science Award Foundation, 2006, retrieved 2015-07-21.
  6. ↑ Wang Xiaoyun at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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