While SHA-2 is a ubiquitous cryptographic hashing primitive, its role in emerging application
domains, eg blockchains or trusted IoT components, has made the acceleration of SHA-2 …

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) has received considerable attention in the past few
years, both from industry and academia, due to its potential for reducing capital and …

An increasing number of Internet of Things applications have been recently considering the
use of the blockchain technology, calling for dedicated computational capabilities of the …

The secure hash algorithm 2 (SHA-2) family, including the SHA-224/256/384/512 hash
functions, is widely adopted in many modern domains, ranging from Internet of Things …

In sensitive communications, the cryptographic hash function plays a crucial role, including
in the military, healthcare, and banking, ensuring secure transmission by verifying data …

The SHA-256 algorithm is widely used in the field of security. In this paper, we propose a
rescheduling method for the SHA-256 round computation. Based on the proposed …

The global paradigm shift toward edge computing has led to a growing demand for efficient
integrity verification. Hash functions are one-way algorithms which act as a zero-knowledge …

High-throughput and area-efficient designs of hash functions and corresponding
mechanisms for Message Authentication Codes (MACs) are in high demand due to new …

Once there are constant or infrequently changed bits (COIBs) in two adjacent input
messages of SHA-2, the switching power of input messages data registers (IMD-REGs) used …

Many cryptographic primitives that are used in cryptographic schemes and security protocols
such as SET, PKI, IPSec and VPN's utilize hash functions-a special family of cryptographic …