Everything about SipHash

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: SipHashA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2012The most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Cryptanalysis of Reduced-Round SipHashCited 3 times
4. Go sideways: BLAKE (hash function)A closely related topic
5. Go sideways: NaCl (software)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Cryptanalysis of Reduced-Round SipHash

  Le He, Hongbo Yu · 2023 · The Computer Journal · 3 citations

• Optimization of PBFT Algorithm Based on SipHash Proxy Signature in the Internet of Things Environment

  肖 肖 · 2026 · Computer Science and Application · 0 citations

• HAxSH: A Derivative of SipHash Using Approximation

  Vivekananda. G, Thejaswini. P, John Jose · 2026 · IEEE Access · 0 citations

• Differential Cryptanalysis of SipHash

  Kosuke Sasaki, Rikuto Kurahara, Kosei Sakamoto · 2026 · Journal of Information Processing · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2012Steven Galbraith · 2012

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

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