Authors:
Harris Michail
1
;
George Athanasiou
1
;
Angeliki Kritikakou
1
;
Costas Goutis
1
;
Andreas Gregoriades
2
and
Vicky Papadopoulou
2
Affiliations:
1
University of Patras, Greece
;
2
European University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Keyword(s):
Hash-Functions, Hardware design, VLSI, High-Throughput, IPSec, SHA-256
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Data Engineering
;
Data Integrity
;
Databases and Data Security
;
Identification, Authentication and Non-Repudiation
;
Information and Systems Security
;
Ipsec, Vpns and Encryption Modes
Abstract:
Nowadays, more than ever, security is considered to be critical issue for all electronic transactions. This is the reason why security services like those described in IPSec are mandatory to IPV6 which will be adopted as the new IP standard the next years. Moreover the need for security services in every data packet that is transmitted via IPv6, illustrates the need for designing security products able to achieve higher throughput rates for the incorporated security schemes. In this paper such a design is presented which manages to increase throughput of SHA-256 hash function enabling efficient software/hardware co-design.