Tiger

From CryptoDox, The Online Encyclopedia on Cryptography and Information Security

Tiger is a cryptographic hash function designed by Ross Anderson and Eli Biham in 1996 with a view for efficiency on 64-bit platforms. The size of a Tiger hash value is 192 bits. There also exists 128 and 160-bit versions of this algorithm, called Tiger/128 and Tiger/160. Both variants return truncated Tiger/192 hash values.

Tiger has no usage restrictions nor patents. It can be used freely, with the reference implementation, with other implementations or with a modification to the reference implementation.

Contents 1 Examples 2 Reference Implementations 3 References 4 See Also 5 Books of Interest 6 External Links

Examples

Some examples of hashes generated by Tiger is given below:

TIGER-128("Hello World!") = 93afa8a33159ad5e9a2e818ca3582bb9

TIGER-160("Hello World!") = 93afa8a33159ad5e9a2e818ca3582bb9247c68c5

TIGER-192("Hello World!") = 93afa8a33159ad5e9a2e818ca3582bb9247c68c581362de8

TIGER-2("Hello World!") = 40c56a4fb0404f5999c2c9de7c2bead3e1279b26cd0f0a06

Reference Implementations

• Tiger Home Page - C Implementation
• Cryptix - Java Implementation
• Perl Interface

References

• Tiger Hash at Wikipedia
• Online Hash Generators

See Also

• Hash Functions

Books of Interest

External Links

• Tiger: A Fast New Cryptographic Hash Function