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On FPGA-based implementations of Gr\{o}stl

Authors:
Bernhard Jungk
Steffen Reith
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/260
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Abstract: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has started a competition for a new secure hash standard. To make a significant comparison between the submitted candidates, third party implementations of all proposed hash functions are needed. This is one of the reasons why the SHA-3 candidate Gr\{o}stl has been chosen for a FPGA-based implementation. Mainly our work is motivated by actual and future developments of the automotive market (e.g. car-2-car communication systems), which will increase the necessity for a suitable cryptographic infrastructure in modern vehicles (cf. AUTOSAR project) even further. One core component of such an infrastructure is a secure cryptographic hash function, which is used for a lot of applications like challenge-response authentication systems or digital signature schemes. Another motivation to evaluate Gr\{o}stl is its resemblance to AES. The automotive market demands, like any mass market, low budget and therefore compact implementations, hence our evaluation of Gr\{o}stl focuses on area optimizations. It is shown that, while Gr\{o}stl is inherently quite large compared to AES, it is still possible to implement the Gr\{o}stl algorithm on small and low budget FPGAs like the second smallest available Spartan-3, while maintaining a reasonable high throughput.
BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2010-23161,
  title={On FPGA-based implementations of Gr\{o}stl},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={implementation / SHA-3 Gr\{o}stl FPGA automotive},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/260},
  note={ bernhard.jungk@hs-rm.de 14736 received 7 May 2010},
  author={Bernhard Jungk and Steffen Reith},
  year=2010
}