An FPGA design of a unified hash engine for IPSec authentication

E. Khan; M. Watheq El-Kharashi; F. Gebali; M. Abd-El-Barr

doi:10.1109/IWSOC.2005.41

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An FPGA design of a unified hash engine for IPSec authentication

E. Khan, M. Watheq El-Kharashi, F. Gebali and M. Abd-El-Barr

Fifth International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications (IWSOC'05), Vol.2005, pp.450-453

2005

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSOC.2005.41

Abstract

Algorithm design and analysis

Authentication

Computer security

Cryptography

Data security

Electrostatic precipitators

Engines

Field programmable gate arrays

Runtime

Throughput

Hash functions are important security primitives used for authentication and data integrity. Among the most popular hash functions are MD5, SHA-1, and RIPEMD-160 that are used in conjunction with HMAC for IPSec. These three hash functions are based on an older one, MD4. Therefore, they have some similarities that can be exploited for designing a unified engine to perform the three hash functions. A unified engine design proves useful since the three algorithms are to be used by same implementation on the same core for authentication and data integrity using HMAC for IPSec. In this work, we design a SoC with a unified hash engine that can be reconfigured at runtime to perform one of the three hash functions. The results of our work show that the proposed engine has a balance between area and throughput compared to previous works.

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Title: An FPGA design of a unified hash engine for IPSec authentication
Creators - without role: E. Khan - University of Victoria
M. Watheq El-Kharashi - Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Victoria Univ., BC, Canada
F. Gebali - University of Victoria
M. Abd-El-Barr - University of Victoria
Publication Details: Fifth International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications (IWSOC'05), Vol.2005, pp.450-453
Publisher: IEEE
Identifiers: 9930856308331
Academic Unit: Umm Al Qura University
Language: English
Resource Type: Conference proceeding