NIST SHA-3 competition candidate MD6

Target entity: NIST SHA-3 competition candidate MD6
Context triple: [Yiqun Lisa Yin, workedOn, NIST SHA-3 competition candidate MD6]

• A. Whirlpool hash function
  Whirlpool is a cryptographic hash function designed by Vincent Rijmen and Paulo S. L. M. Barreto, known for its wide-pipe construction and strong security properties suitable for digital signatures and data integrity.
• B. Davies–Meyer compression function
  The Davies–Meyer compression function is a classic construction in cryptography that builds a hash function’s compression step from a block cipher by feeding the cipher’s output back into the input via XOR.
• C. Merkle–Damgård construction
  The Merkle–Damgård construction is a fundamental method for building collision-resistant cryptographic hash functions from fixed-size compression functions, used in many classic hash algorithms like MD5 and SHA-1.
• D. SHA-0
  SHA-0 is an early, now-obsolete cryptographic hash function in the Secure Hash Algorithm family, known for its structural weaknesses and subsequent replacement by SHA-1.
• E. The Design of Rijndael
  The Design of Rijndael is a technical book by Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen that explains the design principles, structure, and security rationale of the Rijndael cipher, which became the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: NIST SHA-3 competition candidate MD6
Target entity description: NIST SHA-3 competition candidate MD6 is a cryptographic hash function proposal designed to provide strong security and efficient performance as a successor to earlier hash standards.

• A. Whirlpool hash function
  Whirlpool is a cryptographic hash function designed by Vincent Rijmen and Paulo S. L. M. Barreto, known for its wide-pipe construction and strong security properties suitable for digital signatures and data integrity.
• B. Davies–Meyer compression function
  The Davies–Meyer compression function is a classic construction in cryptography that builds a hash function’s compression step from a block cipher by feeding the cipher’s output back into the input via XOR.
• C. Merkle–Damgård construction
  The Merkle–Damgård construction is a fundamental method for building collision-resistant cryptographic hash functions from fixed-size compression functions, used in many classic hash algorithms like MD5 and SHA-1.
• D. SHA-0
  SHA-0 is an early, now-obsolete cryptographic hash function in the Secure Hash Algorithm family, known for its structural weaknesses and subsequent replacement by SHA-1.
• E. The Design of Rijndael
  The Design of Rijndael is a technical book by Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen that explains the design principles, structure, and security rationale of the Rijndael cipher, which became the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
• F. None of above. chosen