On The Impact of Target Technology in SHA-3 Hardware Benchmark Rankings.
Xu Guo, Sinan Huang, Leyla Nazhandali, Patrick R. Schaumont · 2010
Abstract. Both FPGAs and ASICs are widely used as the technology for comparing SHA-3 hardware benchmarking process. However, the impact of target technology in SHA-3 hardware benchmark rankings has hardly been considered. A cross-platform comparison between the FPGA and ASIC results of the 14 second round SHA-3 designs demonstrates the gap between two sets of benchmarking results. In this paper we describe a systematic approach to analyze a SHA-3 hardware benchmark process for both FPGAs and ASICs, and we present our latest results for FPGA and ASIC evaluation of the 14 second round SHA-3 candidates. 1 About Paper Version 2.0 This version contains updated FPGA results with Xilinx Virtex-5 XC5VLX330-2FF1760 FPGA. All the FPGA area, speed and power results are generated based on Xilinx XFLOW command-line tool (Version 12.2). All the Verilog/VHDL source codes and FPGA/ASIC scripts for 14 SHA-3 algorithms with the SHA256 reference design can be found at VT-SHA3 project website: