Wang's (et al) differential attack works on MD5, MD4, RIPEMD and HAVAL.
Why doesn't it work on SHA-1?
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Sign up to join this communityWang's (et al) differential attack works on MD5, MD4, RIPEMD and HAVAL.
Why doesn't it work on SHA-1?
The message expansion step in SHA-1. The compression functions for MD4,MD5, RIPEMD and I think HAVAL only re-arrange and re-use words in the message block.
SHA-1 will expand the message from 16 words to 80 words using a rotation and XOR operation. The additional 64 words are a function of every word of the message block.
Because of this additional dependence on previous words in the block, Wang's attack will not work.