Tiger (cryptography)

In cryptography, Tiger is a cryptographic hash function designed by and in 1995 for efficiency on 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 where the message is padded by first appending a byte with the hexadecimal value of 0x80 as in MD4, MD5 and , rather than with the hexadecimal value of 0x01 as in the case of Tiger. The two variants are otherwise identical.

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Algorithm

Tiger is designed using the nearly universal . 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.

Although fast in software, Tiger’s large S-boxes (4 S-boxes, each with 256 64-bit entries totals 8 ) make implementations in hardware or small difficult.

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 and file sharing networks, and is recommended to be included into the BitTorrent metafile for better content availability.

Tiger was considered for inclusion in the standard, but was abandoned in favor of RIPEMD-160..

OID

refers to TIGER as one having no , whereas the  list TIGER as having OID <code>1.3.6.1.4.1.11591.12.2</code>. In the  subtree, HMAC-TIGER is assigned OID <code>1.3.6.1.5.5.8.1.3</code>. No OID for TTH has been announced yet.

Byte Order

The specification of Tiger does not define the way the output of Tiger should be printed but only defines the result to be three ordered 64-bit integers. 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. The protocols and as well as the program <code>tthsum</code> use little-endian byte order, which is also preferred by one of the authors.

Examples

In the example below, the 192-bit (24-byte) Tiger hashes are represented as 48 digits in little-endian byte order. The following demonstrates a 43-byte input and the corresponding Tiger hashes:

Tiger("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy og") = 6d12a41e72e644f017b6f0e2f7b44c6285f06dd5d2c5b075  Tiger2("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy og") = 976abff8062a2e9dcea3a1ace966ed9c19cb85558b4976d8

Even a small change in the message will (with overwhelming probability) result in a completely different hash, e.g. changing <tt>d</tt> to <tt>c</tt>: <!– This sentence is confusing in context. It says ‘changing d to c’ but then both examples are of ‘c’. Perhaps a ‘(compare to above values)’ would be helpful? –>

<!– Both these examples should have “cog”. The examples above have “dog”. –>

Tiger("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy og") = a8f04b0f7201a0d728101c9d26525b31764a3493fcd8458f  Tiger2("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy og") = 09c11330283a27efb51930aa7dc1ec624ff738a8d9bdd3df

The hash of the zero-length string is:

Tiger("") = 3293ac630c13f0245f92bbb1766e16167a4e58492dde73f3  Tiger2("") = 4441be75f6018773c206c22745374b924aa8313fef919f41

Cryptanalysis

Unlike MD5 or SHA-0/1, there are no known effective attacks on the full 24-round Tiger 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.

and have found a collision-finding attack on 16-round Tiger with a time complexity equivalent to about 2<sup>44</sup> compression function invocations and another attack that finds pseudo-near collisions in 20-round Tiger with work less than that of 2<sup>48</sup> compression function invocations. 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 2<sup>62</sup> and 2<sup>44</sup> evaluations of the Tiger compression function, respectively.

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