Comparison of cryptographic hash functions

Template:Short description The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of cryptographic hash functions. See the individual functions' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date. An overview of hash function security/cryptanalysis can be found at hash function security summary.

General information

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

Function	Year	Designer	Derived from	Reference
BLAKE	2008	Jean-Philippe Aumasson Luca Henzen Willi Meier Raphael C.-W. Phan	ChaCha20	Website Specification
BLAKE2	2012	Jean-Philippe Aumasson Samuel Neves Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn Christian Winnerlein	BLAKE	Website Specification Template:IETF RFC
BLAKE3	2020	Jack O'Connor Jean-Philippe Aumasson Samuel Neves Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn	BLAKE2	Website Specification
GOST R 34.11-94	1994	FAPSI and VNIIstandart	GOST 28147-89	Template:IETF RFC
HAVAL	1992	Yuliang Zheng Josef Pieprzyk Jennifer Seberry		Website Specification
KangarooTwelve	2016	Guido Bertoni Joan Daemen Michaël Peeters Gilles Van Assche	Keccak	Website Specification
MD2	1989	Ronald Rivest		Template:IETF RFC
MD4	1990			Template:IETF RFC
MD5	1992		MD4	Template:IETF RFC
MD6	2008			Website Specification
RIPEMD	1992	The RIPE Consortium	MD4
RIPEMD-128 RIPEMD-256 RIPEMD-160 RIPEMD-320	1996	Hans Dobbertin Antoon Bosselaers Bart Preneel	RIPEMD	Website Specification
SHA-0	1993	NSA		SHA-0
SHA-1	1995		SHA-0	Specification
SHA-256 SHA-384 SHA-512	2002
SHA-224	2004
SHA-3 (Keccak)	2008	Guido Bertoni Joan Daemen Michaël Peeters Gilles Van Assche	RadioGatún	Website Specification
Streebog	2012	FSB, InfoTeCS JSC		Template:IETF RFC
Tiger	1995	Ross Anderson Eli Biham		Website Specification
Whirlpool	2004	Vincent Rijmen Paulo Barreto		Website

Parameters

Algorithm	Output size (bits)	Internal state sizeTemplate:Notetag	Block size	Length size	Word size	Rounds
BLAKE2b	512	512	1024	128Template:Notetag	64	12
BLAKE2s	256	256	512	64Template:Notetag	32	10
BLAKE3	UnlimitedTemplate:Notetag	256Template:Notetag	512	64	32	7
GOST	256	256	256	256	32	32
HAVAL	256/224/192/160/128	256	1024	64	32	3/4/5
MD2	128	384	128	–	32	18
MD4	128	128	512	64	32	3
MD5	128	128	512	64	32	64
PANAMA	256	8736	256	–	32	–
RadioGatún	UnlimitedTemplate:Notetag	58 words	19 wordsTemplate:Notetag	–	1–64Template:Notetag	18Template:Notetag
RIPEMD	128	128	512	64	32	48
RIPEMD-128, -256	128/256	128/256	512	64	32	64
RIPEMD-160	160	160	512	64	32	80
RIPEMD-320	320	320	512	64	32	80
SHA-0	160	160	512	64	32	80
SHA-1	160	160	512	64	32	80
SHA-224, -256	224/256	256	512	64	32	64
SHA-384, -512, -512/224, -512/256	384/512/224/256	512	1024	128	64	80
SHA-3	224/256/384/512Template:Notetag	1600	1600 - 2*bits	–Template:Notetag	64	24
SHA3-224	224	1600	1152	–	64	24
SHA3-256	256	1600	1088	–	64	24
SHA3-384	384	1600	832	–	64	24
SHA3-512	512	1600	576	–	64	24
Tiger(2)-192/160/128	192/160/128	192	512	64	64	24
Whirlpool	512	512	512	256	8	10

Compression function

The following tables compare technical information for compression functions of cryptographic hash functions. The information comes from the specifications, please refer to them for more details.

Function	Size (bits)Template:Notetag						Words × Passes = RoundsTemplate:Notetag	OperationsTemplate:Notetag	EndianTemplate:Notetag
	Word	Digest	Chaining valuesTemplate:Notetag	Computation valuesTemplate:Notetag	Block	Length Template:Notetag
GOST R 34.11-94	32	×8 = 256			×8 = 256	32	4	A B L S	Little
HAVAL-3-128	32	×4 = 128	×8 = 256		×32 = 1,024	64	32 × 3 = 96	A B S	Little
HAVAL-3-160		×5 = 160
HAVAL-3-192		×6 = 192
HAVAL-3-224		×7 = 224
HAVAL-3-256		×8 = 256
HAVAL-4-128		×4 = 128					32 × 4 = 128
HAVAL-4-160		×5 = 160
HAVAL-4-192		×6 = 192
HAVAL-4-224		×7 = 224
HAVAL-4-256		×8 = 256
HAVAL-5-128		×4 = 128					32 × 5 = 160
HAVAL-5-160		×5 = 160
HAVAL-5-192		×6 = 192
HAVAL-5-224		×7 = 224
HAVAL-5-256		×8 = 256
MD2	8	×16 = 128	×32 = 256	×48 = 384	×16 = 128	None	48 × 18 = 864	B	N/A
MD4	32	×4 = 128			×16 = 512	64	16 × 3 = 48	A B S	Little
MD5							16 × 4 = 64
RIPEMD	32	×4 = 128		×8 = 256	×16 = 512	64	16 × 3 = 48	A B S	Little
RIPEMD-128							16 × 4 = 64
RIPEMD-256		×8 = 256
RIPEMD-160		×5 = 160		×10 = 320			16 × 5 = 80
RIPEMD-320		×10 = 320
SHA-0	32	×5 = 160			×16 = 512	64	16 × 5 = 80	A B S	Big
SHA-1
SHA-256		×8 = 256	×8 = 256				16 × 4 = 64
SHA-224		×7 = 224
SHA-512	64	×8 = 512	×8 = 512		×16 = 1024	128	16 × 5 = 80
SHA-384		×6 = 384
Tiger-192	64	×3 = 192	×3 = 192		×8 = 512	64	8 × 3 = 24	A B L S	Not Specified
Tiger-160		×2.5=160
Tiger-128		×2 = 128
Function	Word	Digest	Chaining values	Computation values	Block	Length	Words × Passes = Rounds	Operations	Endian
	Size (bits)

See also

• List of hash functions
• Hash function security summary
• Word (computer architecture)

External links

• ECRYPT Benchmarking of Cryptographic Hashes – measurements of hash function speed on various platforms
• The ECRYPT Hash Function Website – A wiki for cryptographic hash functions
• SHA-3 Project – Information about SHA-3 competition