Paper 2013/439
Pushing the Limits of SHA-3 Hardware Implementations to Fit on RFID
Peter Pessl and Michael Hutter
Abstract
There exists a broad range of RFID protocols in literature that propose hash functions as cryptographic primitives. Since Keccak has been selected as the winner of the NIST SHA-3 competition in 2012, there is the question of how far we can push the limits of Keccak to fulfill the stringent requirements of passive low-cost RFID. In this paper, we address this question by presenting a hardware implementation of Keccak that aims for lowest power and lowest area. Our smallest (full-state) design requires only 2\,927 GEs (for designs with external memory available) and 5\,522 GEs (total size including memory). It has a power consumption of $12.5\,\mu$W at 1\,MHz on a low leakage 130\,nm CMOS process technology. As a result, we provide a design that needs 40\,\% less resources than related work. Our design is even smaller than the smallest SHA-1 and SHA-2 implementations.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Implementation
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. To appear at CHES 2013
- Keywords
- Hardware ImplementationSHA-3KeccakASICRFIDLow-Power DesignEmbedded Systems.
- Contact author(s)
- michael hutter @ iaik tugraz at
- History
- 2013-07-18: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2013/439
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2013/439,
author = {Peter Pessl and Michael Hutter},
title = {Pushing the Limits of {SHA}-3 Hardware Implementations to Fit on {RFID}},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2013/439},
year = {2013},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/439}
}
