MD2 (cryptography)

The MD2 Message-Digest Algorithm is a cryptographic hash function developed by in 1989. The algorithm is optimized for computers. MD2 is specified in RFC 1319. Although MD2 is no longer considered secure, even , it remains in use in as part of generated with MD2 and . The MD2 hash function receives its acronym MD from its structure using Merkle–Damgård construction.

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Description

The 128-bit hash value of any message is formed by padding it to a multiple of the block length (128 bits or 16 ) and adding a 16-byte checksum to it. For the actual calculation, a 48-byte auxiliary block and a 256-byte generated indirectly from the digits of the fractional part of are used (see ). The algorithm runs through a loop where it permutes each byte in the auxiliary block 18 times for every 16 input bytes processed. Once all of the blocks of the (lengthened) message have been processed, the first partial block of the auxiliary block becomes the hash value of the message.

The S-table’s values are derived from Pi, and in hex are:

{ 0x29, 0x2E, 0x43, 0xC9, 0xA2, 0xD8, 0x7C, 0x01, 0x3D, 0x36, 0x54, 0xA1, 0xEC, 0xF0, 0x06, 0x13,  0x62, 0xA7, 0x05, 0xF3, 0xC0, 0xC7, 0x73, 0x8C, 0x98, 0x93, 0x2B, 0xD9, 0xBC, 0x4C, 0x82, 0xCA,  0x1E, 0x9B, 0x57, 0x3C, 0xFD, 0xD4, 0xE0, 0x16, 0x67, 0x42, 0x6F, 0x18, 0x8A, 0x17, 0xE5, 0x12,  0xBE, 0x4E, 0xC4, 0xD6, 0xDA, 0x9E, 0xDE, 0x49, 0xA0, 0xFB, 0xF5, 0x8E, 0xBB, 0x2F, 0xEE, 0x7A,  0xA9, 0x68, 0x79, 0x91, 0x15, 0xB2, 0x07, 0x3F, 0x94, 0xC2, 0x10, 0x89, 0x0B, 0x22, 0x5F, 0x21, 0x80, 0x7F, 0x5D, 0x9A, 0x5A, 0x90, 0x32, 0x27, 0x35, 0x3E, 0xCC, 0xE7, 0xBF, 0xF7, 0x97, 0x03,  0xFF, 0x19, 0x30, 0xB3, 0x48, 0xA5, 0xB5, 0xD1, 0xD7, 0x5E, 0x92, 0x2A, 0xAC, 0x56, 0xAA, 0xC6,  0x4F, 0xB8, 0x38, 0xD2, 0x96, 0xA4, 0x7D, 0xB6, 0x76, 0xFC, 0x6B, 0xE2, 0x9C, 0x74, 0x04, 0xF1,  0x45, 0x9D, 0x70, 0x59, 0x64, 0x71, 0x87, 0x20, 0x86, 0x5B, 0xCF, 0x65, 0xE6, 0x2D, 0xA8, 0x02,  0x1B, 0x60, 0x25, 0xAD, 0xAE, 0xB0, 0xB9, 0xF6, 0x1C, 0x46, 0x61, 0x69, 0x34, 0x40, 0x7E, 0x0F,  0x55, 0x47, 0xA3, 0x23, 0xDD, 0x51, 0xAF, 0x3A, 0xC3, 0x5C, 0xF9, 0xCE, 0xBA, 0xC5, 0xEA, 0x26,  0x2C, 0x53, 0x0D, 0x6E, 0x85, 0x28, 0x84, 0x09, 0xD3, 0xDF, 0xCD, 0xF4, 0x41, 0x81, 0x4D, 0x52,  0x6A, 0xDC, 0x37, 0xC8, 0x6C, 0xC1, 0xAB, 0xFA, 0x24, 0xE1, 0x7B, 0x08, 0x0C, 0xBD, 0xB1, 0x4A,  0x78, 0x88, 0x95, 0x8B, 0xE3, 0x63, 0xE8, 0x6D, 0xE9, 0xCB, 0xD5, 0xFE, 0x3B, 0x00, 0x1D, 0x39,  0xF2, 0xEF, 0xB7, 0x0E, 0x66, 0x58, 0xD0, 0xE4, 0xA6, 0x77, 0x72, 0xF8, 0xEB, 0x75, 0x4B, 0x0A,  0x31, 0x44, 0x50, 0xB4, 0x8F, 0xED, 0x1F, 0x1A, 0xDB, 0x99, 0x8D, 0x33, 0x9F, 0x11, 0x83, 0x14 }

MD2 hashes

The 128-bit (16-byte) MD2 hashes (also termed message digests) are typically represented as 32-digit numbers. The following demonstrates a 43-byte input and the corresponding MD2 hash:

MD2("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy og") =  03d85a0d629d2c442e987525319fc471

As the result of the in MD2, even a small change in the input message will (with overwhelming probability) result in a completely different hash. For example, changing the letter d to c in the message results in:

MD2("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy og") =  6b890c9292668cdbbfda00a4ebf31f05

The hash of the zero-length string is:

MD2("") =  8350e5a3e24c153df2275c9f80692773

Security

Rogier and Chauvaud (1997) described collisions of MD2’s compression function, although they were unable to extend the attack to the full MD2.

In 2004, MD2 was shown to be vulnerable to a with equivalent to 2104 applications of the compression function (Muller, 2004). The author concludes, “MD2 can no longer be considered a secure one-way hash function“.

In 2008, MD2 has further improvements on a with of 273 compression function evaluations and memory requirements of 273 message blocks.

In 2009, MD2 was shown to be vulnerable to a collision attack with of 263.3 compression function evaluations and memory requirements of 252 hash values. This is slightly better than the which is expected to take 265.5 compression function evaluations.

In 2009, security updates were issued disabling MD2 in , , and .

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Source

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