Everything about RIPEMD

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: RIPEMDA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Collision Attacks on Reduced RIPEMD-128Influential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2013The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: RIPEMD with two-round compress function is not collision-freeCited 55 times
5. Go sideways: Bart PreneelA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: MD4A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• RIPEMD with two-round compress function is not collision-free

  Hans Dobbertin · 1997 · Journal of Cryptology · 55 citations

• ASIC-hardware-focused comparison for hash functions MD5, RIPEMD-160, and SHS

  Akashi Satoh, Tadanobu Inoue · 2007 · Integration · 31 citations

• On the hardware implementation of RIPEMD processor: Networking high speed hashing, up to 2Gbps

  N. Sklavos, O. Koufopavlou · 2005 · Computers & Electrical Engineering · 7 citations

• Cryptanalysis of Reduced RIPEMD-128

  Gao-Li WANG, Mei-Qin WANG · 2008 · Journal of Software · 7 citations

• Automating Collision Attacks on RIPEMD-160

  Yingxin Li, Fukang Liu, Gaoli Wang · 2023 · IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology · 6 citations

• Improved cryptanalysis on RIPEMD‐128

  Gaoli Wang, Hongbo Yu · 2015 · IET Information Security · 4 citations

• Keyed/Unkeyed RIPEMD-128, 192, 256

  Yi Shiung Yeh, Jue-Sam Chou · 2001 · Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences · 4 citations

• Cryptanalysis of 48-step RIPEMD-160

  Gaoli Wang, Yanzhao Shen, Fukang Liu · 2017 · IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology · 4 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Collision Attacks on Reduced RIPEMD-128

  Zhengrong Lu, Hongbo Yu, Xiaoen Lin · 2025 · IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology · 1 citations

• Full-round quantum collision attack on RIPEMD-128

  Zhengrong Lu, Rongrong Cao, Hongbo Yu · 2026 · SCIENTIA SINICA Informationis · 0 citations

• Power Efficiency in Unfolding RIPEMD-160: Dynamic Power Analysis Using Gray Encoding in FPGA Design

  Shamsiah Suhaili, Norhuzaimin Julai, Asrani Lit · 2025 · Journal of Physics: Conference Series · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2013Thomas Johansson · 2013

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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