Novel high throughput implementation of SHA-256 hash function through pre-computation technique
Date Issued
December 2005
Abstract
Hash functions are utilized in the security layer of every communication protocol and in signature authentication schemes for electronic transactions. As time passes more sophisticated applications-that invoke a security layer-arise and address to more users-clients. This means that all these applications demand for higher throughput. In this work a pre-computation technique has been developed for optimizing SHA-256 which has already started replacing both SHA-l and MD-5. Comparing to conventional pipelined implementations of SHA-256 hash function the applied pre-computation technique leads to about 30% higher throughput with only an area penalty of approximately 9.5%.