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{{Infobox cryptographic hash function | name = MD4 | image = | caption = | designers = Ronald Rivest | publish date = October 1990 | series = MD2, MD4, MD5, MD6 | derived from = | derived to = | related to = | certification = | digest size = 128 bits | block size = 512 bits | structure = | rounds = 3 | cryptanalysis = A collision attack published in 2007 can find collisions

Security

Weaknesses in MD4 were demonstrated by Den Boer and Bosselaers in a paper published in 1991. The first full-round MD4 collision attack was found by Hans Dobbertin in 1995, which took only seconds to carry out at that time. In August 2004, Wang et al. found a very efficient collision attack, alongside attacks on later hash function designs in the MD4/MD5/SHA-1/RIPEMD family. This result was improved later by Sasaki et al., and generating a collision is now as cheap as verifying it (a few microseconds).

In 2008, the preimage resistance of MD4 was also broken by Gaëtan Leurent, with a 2 attack. In 2010 Guo et al published a 2 attack.

In 2011, RFC 6150 stated that RFC 1320 (MD4) is historic (obsolete).

MD4 hashes

The 128-bit (16-byte) MD4 hashes (also termed message digests) are typically represented as 32-digit hexadecimal numbers. The following demonstrates a 43-byte ASCII input and the corresponding MD4 hash:

MD4("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog")
= 1bee69a46ba811185c194762abaeae90

Even a small change in the message will (with overwhelming probability) result in a completely different hash, e.g. changing d to c:

MD4("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy cog")
= b86e130ce7028da59e672d56ad0113df

The hash of the zero-length string is:

MD4("") = 31d6cfe0d16ae931b73c59d7e0c089c0

MD4 test vectors

The following test vectors are defined in RFC 1320 (The MD4 Message-Digest Algorithm)

MD4 ("") = 31d6cfe0d16ae931b73c59d7e0c089c0
MD4 ("a") = bde52cb31de33e46245e05fbdbd6fb24
MD4 ("abc") = a448017aaf21d8525fc10ae87aa6729d
MD4 ("message digest") = d9130a8164549fe818874806e1c7014b
MD4 ("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz") = d79e1c308aa5bbcdeea8ed63df412da9
MD4 ("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789") = 043f8582f241db351ce627e153e7f0e4
MD4 ("12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890") = e33b4ddc9c38f2199c3e7b164fcc0536

MD4 collision example

Let:

 k1 = 839c7a4d7a92cb5678a5d5b9eea5a7573c8a74deb366c3dc20a083b69f5d2a3bb3719dc69891e9f95e809fd7e8b23ba6318edd45e51fe39708bf9427e9c3e8b9
 k2 = 839c7a4d7a92cbd678a5d529eea5a7573c8a74deb366c3dc20a083b69f5d2a3bb3719dc69891e9f95e809fd7e8b23ba6318edc45e51fe39708bf9427e9c3e8b9

k1 ≠ k2, but MD4(k1) = MD4(k2) = 4d7e6a1defa93d2dde05b45d864c429b

Note that two hex-digits of k1 and k2 define one byte of the input string, whose length is 64 bytes .

References

Bert den Boer, Antoon Bosselaers: An Attack on the Last Two Rounds of MD4. Crypto 1991: 194–203
Hans Dobbertin: Cryptanalysis of MD4. Fast Software Encryption 1996: 53–69
Hans Dobbertin, 1998. Cryptanalysis of MD4. J. Cryptology 11(4): 253–271
Xiaoyun Wang, Xuejia Lai, Dengguo Feng, Hui Chen, Xiuyuan Yu: Cryptanalysis of the Hash Functions MD4 and RIPEMD. Eurocrypt 2005: 1–18
Yu Sasaki, Lei Wang, Kazuo Ohta, Noboru Kunihiro: New Message Difference for MD4. Fast Software Encryption 2007: 329–348

"The MD4 Message Digest Algorithm". Network Working Group. October 1990. Retrieved 2011-04-29.
Bert den Boer, Antoon Bosselaers (1991). "An Attack on the Last Two Rounds of MD4" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2003-05-23. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
Hans Dobbertin (1995-10-23). "Cryptanalysis of MD4". Journal of Cryptology. 11 (4): 253–271. doi:10.1007/s001459900047. S2CID 7462235.
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Gaëtan Leurent (2008-02-10). "MD4 is Not One-Way" (PDF). FSE 2008. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
https://www.academia.edu/20987202/Advanced_Meet-in-the-Middle_Preimage_Attacks_First_Results_on_Full_Tiger_and_Improved_Results_on_MD4_and_SHA-2

External links

RFC 1320 - Description of MD4 by Ron Rivest
RFC 6150 - MD4 to Historic Status
Rivest, Ronald (1991). "The MD4 Message Digest Algorithm". Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 537. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. pp. 303–311. doi:10.1007/3-540-38424-3_22. ISBN 978-3-540-54508-8. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)

Collision attacks

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List Comparison Known attacks
Common functions	MD5 (compromised) SHA-1 (compromised) SHA-2 SHA-3 BLAKE2
SHA-3 finalists	BLAKE Grøstl JH Skein Keccak (winner)
Other functions	BLAKE3 CubeHash ECOH FSB Fugue GOST HAS-160 HAVAL Kupyna LSH Lane MASH-1 MASH-2 MD2 MD4 MD6 MDC-2 N-hash RIPEMD RadioGatún SIMD SM3 SWIFFT Shabal Snefru Streebog Tiger VSH Whirlpool
Password hashing/ key stretching functions	Argon2 Balloon bcrypt Catena crypt LM hash Lyra2 Makwa PBKDF2 scrypt yescrypt
General purpose key derivation functions	HKDF KDF1/KDF2
MAC functions	CBC-MAC DAA GMAC HMAC NMAC OMAC/CMAC PMAC Poly1305 SipHash UMAC VMAC
Authenticated encryption modes	CCM ChaCha20-Poly1305 CWC EAX GCM IAPM OCB
Attacks	Collision attack Preimage attack Birthday attack Brute-force attack Rainbow table Side-channel attack Length extension attack
Design	Avalanche effect Hash collision Merkle–Damgård construction Sponge function HAIFA construction
Standardization	CAESAR Competition CRYPTREC NESSIE NIST hash function competition Password Hashing Competition NSA Suite B CNSA
Utilization	Hash-based cryptography Merkle tree Message authentication Proof of work Salt Pepper

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