Gost-Hash

From CryptoDox, The Online Encyclopedia on Cryptography and Information Security

GOST runs at less than half the speed of MD2. Speed, is of course relative. GOST can hash about 20 megabytes per second on a Quadra 950, but if you want to set up a system that hashes something every interrupt, this is quite slow. Also, for US software developers, while it is legal to export a cypher that you're only using in a hash function, many people don't want to take the chance. This is what is known to the lawyers as a "chilling effect."

Contents 1 Examples 2 References 3 See Also 4 Books of Interest 5 External Links

Examples

GOST("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog") ==
 "77b7fa410c9ac58a25f49bca7d0468c9296529315eaca76bd1a10f376d1f4294"

References

• Using and Creating Cryptographic-Quality Random Numbers

See Also

• Hash Functions

Books of Interest

External Links

• GOST at Wikipedia
• GOST - The Soviet Encryption Algorithm
• GOST 34.10 - A Brief Overview of Russia's DSA