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Subject: Re: AES as a hash function?
From: Jim Gillogly (jimacm.org)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2000 - 18:32:53 CDT

Bram Cohen wrote:
>
> The announcement didn't mention Rijndael's applicability as a hash
> function. I thing I remember mention in earlier AES documents that it

This is covered in the materials submitted by the Rijndael team,
in the Algorithm Specification at
http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/round2/r2algs.htm
in section 13.

> UHASH is also strictly 128-bit, it would be nice for there to be 256-bit,
> 384-bit, and 512-bit versions as well, to keep parity with the AES.

I expect SHA variants of these lengths to be available before long
from NSA via NIST. 

-- 
	Jim Gillogly
	Trewesday, 11 Winterfilth S.R. 2000, 23:28
	12.19.7.10.15, 11 Men 18 Chen, Eighth Lord of Night