Radiogatun (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! RadioGatun is a cryptographic hash primitive created by Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen, Michael Peeters, and Gilles Van Assche. This hash was first publicly presented at the NIST Second Cryptographic Hash Workshop (one meeting done for the NIST hash function competition) which was in Santa Barbara on August 24 and 25, 2006. RadioGatun is a derivative of Panama, a stream cipher and hash construction from the late 1990s whose hash construction has been broken. RadioGatun does not have Panama's weaknesses when used as a hash function. RadioGatun is actually a family of 64 different hash functions, with a single parameter, the word width in bits (w), adjustable between one and 64. The only RadioGatun variants with test vectors (published hash values for sample inputs so programmers can verify they are correctly implementing the algorithm) are the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of RadioGatun.