Area-throughput trade-offs for SHA-1 and SHA-256 hash functions' pipelined designs
Journal
Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers
Date Issued
April 1, 2016
DOI
10.1142/S0218126616500328
Abstract
High-throughput designs of hash functions are strongly demanded due to the need for security in every transmitted packet of worldwide e-transactions. Thus, optimized and non-optimized pipelined architectures have been proposed raising, however, important questions. Which is the optimum number of the pipeline stages? Is it worth to develop optimized designs or could the same results be achieved by increasing only the pipeline stages of the non-optimized designs? The paper answers the above questions studying extensively many pipelined architectures of SHA-1 and SHA-256 hashes, implemented in FPGAS, in terms of throughput/area (T/A) factor. Also, guides for developing efficient security schemes designs are provided.