Performance Comparison of Keccak, Skein, Grøstl, Blake and JH: SHA-3 Final Round Candidate Algorithms on ARM Cortex A8 Processor
Rajeev Sobti, G. Geetha · International Journal of Security and Its Applications · 2015
Taking cognizance of various attacks on MDx family of Hash function including SHA-0 and SHA-1, National Institute of Standards and Technology came up with a public competition for new Hash standard SHA-3 to augment or replace the current Hash standard SHA-2.NIST provided a reference platform (Wintel machines) and compiler (Microsoft Visual Studio) on which the submitted algorithms were to be evaluated.The five algorithms that reached the final round of SHA-3 public competition were evaluated by us on ARM Cortex A8 architecture (architecture other than the reference platform).Performance evaluation of these final round candidate algorithms were done on Cortex-A8 based OpenBoard AM335x from PHYTEC running Linux 3.2.0.The results in Cycles consumed per byte are shared in this paper.