Editing HAVAL (section)

{{Short description|Cryptographic hash function}}
'''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 (3, 4, or 5) to be used to generate the hash. HAVAL was broken in 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://valerieaurora.org/hash.html|title=Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions}}</ref>

HAVAL was invented by [[Yuliang Zheng]], [[Josef Pieprzyk]], and [[Jennifer Seberry]] in 1992.