Re: building 512 bit hash functions from a block cipher

From: Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen_at_t-online.de)
Date: 02/29/04


Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 23:17:34 +0100


Tom Naxos wrote:

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> Does anyone know a way to obtain a secure 512 bit hash function from aes256?

Just a random thought: Rijndael (not the specific form AES)
allows block length of 256. One could also use a 128-bit
block size cipher to build a 256-bit block size cipher,
using e.g. the Feistel construct, I suppose. Wouldn't that
possibly help somehow?

M. K. Shen



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