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Cryptographic hash functions are widely used in many information security applications like digital signatures, message authentication codes (MACs), and other forms of authentication. In response to recent advances in cryptanalysis of commonly used hash algorithms, NIST USA announced a publicly open competition for selection of new standard Secure Hash Algorithm called SHA-3. One important aspect of this competition is evaluation of hardware implementations of the candidates. Skein is one of the 5 candidates that have been promoted to final round of the competition. In this paper we present an efficient hardware implementation of Skein-256 algorithm and compare our results with other published hardware implementations of Skein. This work serves as performance investigation of hardware implementation of Skein on modern FPGAs.
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Latif, K., Tariq, M., Aziz, A., Mahboob, A. (2012). Efficient Hardware Implementation of Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-3) Finalist - Skein. In: Sambath, S., Zhu, E. (eds) Frontiers in Computer Education. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 133. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27552-4_122
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