Description

Created by Ron Rivest, MD4 is a 128-bit one-way hash. Designed to be very fast, especially on little-endian machines, it has known partial attacks (first two of three rounds, last two of three rounds) but no known full algorithm attacks. It has been replaced by MD5.

References

Applied Cryptography, 2nd edition (1996), Bruce Schneier.

See Also

SHA-1, MD2 and MD5.