Hardware implementation quality is an important factor in selecting the NIST SHA-3 competition finalists. However, a comprehensive methodology to benchmark five final round SHA-3 candidates in ASIC is challenging. Many factors need to be considered, including application scenarios, target technologies and optimization goals. This work describes detailed steps in the silicon implementation of a ...

Hardware implementation quality is an important factor in selecting the NIST SHA-3 competition finalists. However, a comprehensive methodology to benchmark five final round SHA-3 candidates in ASIC is challenging. Many factors need to be considered, including application scenarios, target technologies and optimization goals. This work describes detailed steps in the silicon implementation of a ...

Draft FIPS PUB 202 [32] speci es the Secure Hash Algorithm-3 (SHA-3) family of functions. The SHA-3 functions are based on instances of the Keccak algorithm that NIST selected as the winner of the SHA-3 cryptographic hash algorithm competition. The SHA-3 family consists of four cryptographic hash functions, SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, and SHA3-512, and two extendableoutput functions (XOFs), S...

With the rapid advancement of technologies and proliferation intelligent devices, connecting to internet challenges have grown manifold, such as ensuring communication security keeping user credentials secret. Data integrity privacy become crucial concerns in any ecosystem advanced interconnected communications. Cryptographic hash functions been extensively employed ensure data insecure environ...

In 2007, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced a public contest aiming at the selection of a new standard for a cryptographic hash function. In this paper, the security margin of five SHA-3 finalists is evaluated with an assumption that attacks launched on finalists should be practically verified. A method of attacks is called logical cryptanalysis where the o...

Hardware implementation quality will be considered as an important factor for evaluating the NIST SHA-3 competition candidates in the second round. The most traditional and popular hardware im­ plementation method is designing ASICs with standard cells. However, to benchmark 14 second round SHA-3 ASIC designs based on a fair and comprehensive methodology can be very challenging because of the u...

This paper discusses modern hash function construction using the NIST SHA-3 competition as a survey of modern hash function construction properties. Three primary hash function designs are identified based on the designs of SHA-3 candidates submitted as part of the NIST SHA-3 competition. These designs are Widepipe, Sponge, and HAsh Iterated FrAmework (HAIFA). Keywordscryptography; hashing; has...