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Blue Midnight Wish and NIST SHA-3 contest
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I
am one of the inventors of Blue Midnight Wish and one of the contributors of
EDON-R hash functions in this contest. Blue Midnight Wish passed to the second
round, it is the fastest candidate.
NIST Cryptographic Hash Algorithm
Competition:
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Main
page is NIST SHA-3 contest. Unofficial
pages: Zoo, wiki page, list of submitters, SW performance on eBASH,
HW results, Niels Ferguson comparison.
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On
Oct. 31, 2008 - deadline for sending proposals. NIST received 64 entries.
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On
Dec.10, 2008 NIST accepted 51 First
Round Candidates.
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On
Feb. 25-28, 2009 The
First SHA-3 Candidate Conference was held in Leuven.
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On
July 24, 2009 NIST selected the following 14 Second Round
Candidates to continue in the competition: BLAKE, Blue Midnight Wish,
CubeHash, ECHO, Fugue, Grøstl, Hamsi, JH, Keccak, Luffa, Shabal, SHAvite-3,
SIMD, Skein. Submitters were invited to tweak their submissions by Sept. 15,
2009.
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On
September 28, 2009 NIST has published the tweaked versions of the algorithms on
their page.
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Nice
summary of the tweaks is here.
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NIST
report summarizing the first round of the competition, and the selection of the
second round candidates, is here.
Blue
Midnight Wish:
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team homepage
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Danilo
Gligoroski, Vlastimil Klima, Svein J. Knapskog, Mohamed El-Hadedy, Jorn
Amundsen, Stig F. Mjolsnes: Cryptographic Hash Function Blue Midnight Wish, the second
version, September 15, 2009, description, reference implementation,
the whole submission package,
homepage, differences
from the first version
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Blue Midnight Wish, the first version, Oct. 2008, description, homepage,
presentation
at the First SHA-3 Candidate Conference, Feb. 25-28, 2009,
Cryptanalysis:
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Søren
S. Thomsen: A near-collision attack on the Blue Midnight Wish compression
function, 2008, pdf ver. 2.0,
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Søren
S. Thomsen: Pseudo-cryptanalysis of Blue Midnight Wish, April 16, 2009, pdf.
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NEW. Danilo Gligoroski,
Vlastimil Klima: On the Computational Asymmetry of the S-boxes Present in Blue
Midnight Wish Cryptographic Hash Function, Information
on ICT Innovations 2009, Sept. 28 - 30, Ohrid, R. Macedonia
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NEW: Danilo Gligoroski,
Vlastimil Klima, On Blue Midnight Wish Decomposition, SantaCrypt 2009, Dec. 3-4, 2009, Prague,
Czech Republic, Proceedings of SantaCrypt 2009, ISBN 978-80-904257-0-5, pp.
41-51, pdf.
My other contributions to
the SHA-3 contest:
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Danilo
Gligoroski, Rune Steinsmo Ødegård, Marija Mihova, Svein
Johan Knapskog, Ljupco Kocarev, Ale Drápal, Vlastimil Klima: Cryptographic Hash Function EDON-R,
description,
homepage,
the
whole submission package
(Jan 12, 2009), presentation
at the First SHA-3 Candidate Conference on February 25-28, 2009,
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Vlastimil Klima: Dynamic SHA is vulnerable to generic attacks, letter,
Dec. 14, 2008,
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Vlastimil Klima: Dynamic SHA2 is vulnerable to generic attacks, letter,
Dec. 14, 2008,
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Vlastimil Klima: A near-collision attack on BLENDER,
letter,
official
paper, Dec. 19, 2008,
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Vlastimil Klima: Huge multicollisions and
multipreimages of hash functions BLENDER-n, IACR eprint Report 2009/006, local copy: paper_EN,
paper_CZ,
Jan. 2, 2009
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Vlastimil
Klima: Multicollisions of EDON-R hash function and other observations,
November 2008, pdf,
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Vlastimil
Klima and Petr Susil: A Note on Linear Approximations of BLUE MIDNIGHT WISH
Cryptographic Hash Function, Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2009/453, Sept. 15, 2009