HAVAL

HAVAL is a cryptographic [hash function]. Unlike MD5, but like most modern cryptographic hash functions, HAVAL can produce hashes of different lengths – 128 bits, 160 bits, 192 bits, 224 bits, and 256 bits. HAVAL also allows users to specify the number of rounds to be used to generate the hash. HAVAL was broken in 2004.
HAVAL was invented by Yuliang Zheng, Josef Pieprzyk, and Jennifer Seberry in 1992.

HAVAL hashes

The HAVAL hashes are typically represented as 32-, 40-, 48-, 56- or 64-digit hexadecimal numbers. The following demonstrates a 43-byte ASCII input and the corresponding HAVAL hash :
HAVAL =
b89c551cdfe2e06dbd4cea2be1bc7d557416c58ebb4d07cbc94e49f710c55be4
Even a small change in the message will result in a completely different hash, e.g. changing the letter to a produces the following hash value:
HAVAL =
60983bb8c8f49ad3bea29899b78cd741f4c96e911bbc272e5550a4f195a4077e
The hash of a zero-length string is:
HAVAL =
be417bb4dd5cfb76c7126f4f8eeb1553a449039307b1a3cd451dbfdc0fbbe330

Security

Research has uncovered weaknesses which make further use of HAVAL questionable. On 17 August 2004, collisions for HAVAL were announced by Xiaoyun Wang, Dengguo Feng, Xuejia Lai, and Hongbo Yu.