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Hashing Question Jan 13 2008 01:27AM
Kelly Robinson (caliana1989 gmail com) (2 replies)
RE: Hashing Question Jan 14 2008 02:33PM
Christian Campbell (ccampbell brueggers com)
Re: Hashing Question Jan 14 2008 08:38AM
Christoph Mayer (mayer tm uka de)
Hi Kelly,

there is a note on this problem in:

[FIPS02] FIPS. Secure Hash Standard, Aug 2002.
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips180-2/fips180-2withchangenoti
ce.pdf.

Page 73, "Truncation of the Hash Function Output"

Hope this helps,
Chris

Kelly Robinson schrieb:
> Lets say I have a set of records, each of which is 24 bytes long, I
> want to hash with MD2.
>
> However, I think it is wasteful to hash 24 bytes of data using a
> 128-bit message digest, so I decide to use only the lower 32 bits of
> data produced by the hash algorithm.
>
> Does this have any security implications?

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