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Twister – A Framework for Secure and Fast Hash Functions

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In this paper we present Twister, a new framework for hash functions. Twister incorporates the ideas of wide pipe and sponge functions. The core of this framework is a – very easy to analyze – Mini-Round providing both extremely fast diffusion as well as collision-freeness for one Mini-Round. The total security level is claimed to be not below 2n/2 for collision attacks and 2n for 2nd pre-image attacks. Twister instantiations are secure against all known generic attacks. We also propose three instances Twister-n for hash output sizes n = 224,256,384,512. These instantiations are highly optimized for 64-bit architectures and run very fast in hardware and software, e.g Twister-256 is faster than SHA2-256 on 64-bit platforms and Twister-512 is faster than SHA2-512 on 32-bit platforms. Furthermore, Twister scales very well on low-end platforms.

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    Ewan Fleischmann, Michael Gorski & Stefan Lucks

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Fleischmann, E., Forler, C., Gorski, M., Lucks, S. (2009). Twister – A Framework for Secure and Fast Hash Functions. In: Bao, F., Li, H., Wang, G. (eds) Information Security Practice and Experience. ISPEC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5451. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00843-6_23

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