HAVAL
HAVAL is a cryptographic hash function. Unlike MD5, but like most modern cryptographic hash functions, HAVAL can produce hashes of different lengths. HAVAL can produce hashes in lengths of 128 bits, 160 bits, 192 bits, 224 bits, and 256 bits. HAVAL also allows users to specify the number of rounds (3, 4, or 5) to be used to generate the hash.
HAVAL was invented by , , and in 1992.
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HAVAL hashes
The HAVAL hashes (also termed fingerprints) are typically represented as 32-, 40-, 48-, 56- or 64-digit numbers. The following demonstrates a 43-byte input and the corresponding HAVAL hash (256 bits, 5 passes):
HAVAL("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy og", 256, 5) = b89c551cdfe2e06dbd4cea2be1bc7d557416c58ebb4d07cbc94e49f710c55be4
Even a small change in the message will (with overwhelming probability) result in a completely different hash, e.g. changing the letter <tt>d</tt> to a <tt>c</tt> produces the following hash value:
HAVAL("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy og", 256, 5) = 60983bb8c8f49ad3bea29899b78cd741f4c96e911bbc272e5550a4f195a4077e
The hash of a zero-length string is:
HAVAL("", 256, 5) = be417bb4dd5cfb76c7126f4f8eeb1553a449039307b1a3cd451dbfdc0fbbe330
Security
Research has uncovered weaknesses which make further use of HAVAL (at least the variant with 128 bits and 3 passes with 2<sup>6</sup> operations) questionable. On 17 August 2004, for HAVAL (128 bits, 3 passes) were announced by , Dengguo Feng, , and Hongbo Yu.
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