Comparison of cryptographic hash functions

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of cryptographic hash functions. Please see the individual functions' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date.

General information

Basic general information about the cryptographic hash functions: year, designer, references, etc.

Function	Year	Designer	Derived from	Reference
HAVAL	1992	Yuliang Zheng, Josef Pieprzyk, Jennifer Seberry		Website
MD2	1989	Ronald Rivest		RFC 1319
MD4	1990	Ronald Rivest		RFC 1320
MD5	1992	Ronald Rivest	MD4	RFC 1321
RIPEMD	1990	The RIPE Consortium	MD4
RIPEMD-128/256	1996	Hans Dobbertin, Antoon Bosselaers, Bart Preneel	RIPEMD	Website
RIPEMD-160/320	1996	Hans Dobbertin, Antoon Bosselaers, Bart Preneel	RIPEMD	Website
SHA-0	1993	NSA		SHA-0
SHA-1	1995	NSA	SHA-0	FIPS 180--3
SHA-256/224	2002/2004	NSA		FIPS 180--3
SHA-512/384	2002	NSA		FIPS 180--3
Tiger(2)-192/160/128	1995	Ross Anderson, Eli Biham		Website
Whirlpool	2004	Vincent Rijmen, Paulo Barreto		Website

v t e Cryptographic hash functions and message authentication codes
List Comparison Known attacks
Common functions	MD5 (compromised) SHA-1 (compromised) SHA-2 SHA-3 BLAKE2
SHA-3 finalists	BLAKE Grøstl JH Skein Keccak (winner)
Other functions	BLAKE3 CubeHash ECOH FSB Fugue GOST HAS-160 HAVAL Kupyna LSH Lane MASH-1 MASH-2 MD2 MD4 MD6 MDC-2 N-hash RIPEMD RadioGatún SIMD SM3 SWIFFT Shabal Snefru Streebog Tiger VSH Whirlpool
Password hashing/ key stretching functions	Argon2 Balloon bcrypt Catena crypt LM hash Lyra2 Makwa PBKDF2 scrypt yescrypt
General purpose key derivation functions	HKDF KDF1/KDF2
MAC functions	CBC-MAC DAA GMAC HMAC NMAC OMAC/CMAC PMAC Poly1305 SipHash UMAC VMAC
Authenticated encryption modes	CCM ChaCha20-Poly1305 CWC EAX GCM IAPM OCB
Attacks	Collision attack Preimage attack Birthday attack Brute-force attack Rainbow table Side-channel attack Length extension attack
Design	Avalanche effect Hash collision Merkle–Damgård construction Sponge function HAIFA construction
Standardization	CAESAR Competition CRYPTREC NESSIE NIST hash function competition Password Hashing Competition NSA Suite B CNSA
Utilization	Hash-based cryptography Merkle tree Message authentication Proof of work Salt Pepper

v t e Cryptography
General	History of cryptography Outline of cryptography Classical cipher Cryptographic protocol Authentication protocol Cryptographic primitive Cryptanalysis Cryptocurrency Cryptosystem Cryptographic nonce Cryptovirology Hash function Cryptographic hash function Key derivation function Secure Hash Algorithms Digital signature Kleptography Key (cryptography) Key exchange Key generator Key schedule Key stretching Keygen Machines Cryptojacking malware Ransomware Random number generation Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (CSPRNG) Pseudorandom noise (PRN) Secure channel Insecure channel Subliminal channel Encryption Decryption End-to-end encryption Harvest now, decrypt later Information-theoretic security Plaintext Codetext Ciphertext Shared secret Trapdoor function Trusted timestamping Key-based routing Onion routing Garlic routing Kademlia Mix network
Mathematics	Cryptographic hash function Block cipher Stream cipher Symmetric-key algorithm Authenticated encryption Public-key cryptography Quantum key distribution Quantum cryptography Post-quantum cryptography Message authentication code Random numbers Steganography
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