Efficient Small-Sized Implementation of the Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code

Author

Yiakoumis, Ioannis ; Papadonikolakis, Markos ; Michail, Harris ; Kakarountas, Athanasios P. ; Goutis, Costas E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Patras Univ.

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

21-24 Nov. 2005

Firstpage

1875

Lastpage

1878

Abstract

A design approach to create small-sized highspeed implementations of the keyed-hash message authentication code (HMAC) is presented. The proposed implementation can either operate in HMAC-MD5 and/or in HMAC-SHA1 mode. The proposed implementations do not introduce significant area penalty. However the achieved throughput presents an increase compared to commercially available IP cores that range from 30%-390%. The main contribution of the paper is the increase of the HMAC throughput to the required level to be used in modern telecommunication applications, such as VPN and the oncoming 802.11n

Keywords

VLSI; cryptography; message authentication; telecommunication security; HMAC-MD5; HMAC-SHA1; IEEE 802.11n; VLSI implementation; hash function; keyed-hash message authentication code; security; telecommunication applications; virtual private networks; Application software; Ash; Decision support systems; Digital signatures; Message authentication; Public key cryptography; Security; Throughput; Very large scale integration; Virtual private networks; Security; VLSI implementation; hash function; high-speed HMAC; message authentication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer as a Tool, 2005. EUROCON 2005.The International Conference on

Conference_Location

Belgrade

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0049-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EURCON.2005.1630347

Filename

1630347