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Lucas Hsiung - Home · May 25, 2020

Cryptopals Set 4

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I spent 20 hours on this set, but I also didn’t do one challenge since it involved MD4– perhaps I’ll revisit it with some other hash that’s vulnerable to length extension attacks (like SHA2). Overall, this set was (as stated) a bit easier than the last one.
One thing that I learned/found pretty cool was implementing SHA1 myself and really internalizing why length…

I spent 20 hours on this set, but I also didn’t do one challenge since it involved MD4– perhaps I’ll revisit it with some other hash that’s vulnerable to length extension attacks (like SHA2). Overall, this set was (as stated) a bit easier than the last one. One thing that I learned/found pretty cool was implementing SHA1 myself and really internalizing why length extension attacks were possible. In my security classes we were just told about “internal state” without getting into much detail about it.

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