GOST (hash function)

GOST R 34.11-94 is a Hash-Function defined as a soviet-standard 1994.

Bruce Schneier posted to sci.crypt on 12 Nov 1998 about GOST: "GOST has a 256-bit key, but its key schedule is so weak that I would not use it as a hash function under any circumstances."

External Links

• http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/keysched-crypto96.ps] John Kelsey, Bruce Schneier, David Wagner, "Key-schedule cryptanalysis of IDEA, G-DES, GOST, SAFER, and triple-DES," Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO '96 Proceedings, Volume 1109 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (N. Koblitz, ed.)
• http://www.autochthonous.org/crypto/gosthash.tar.gz C implementation and test vectors for GOST hash function from Markku-Juhani Saarinen, also contains draft translations into English of the GOST 28147-89 and GOST R 34.11-94 standards. Bugfixed version, see [1]