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 …

We consider the problem of how to provide an execution environment where the
application's secrets are safe even in the presence of malicious system software layers. We …

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 …

The development of a low-cost high-performance secure hash algorithm (SHA)-256
accelerator has recently received extensive interest because SHA-256 is important in …

Blockchain distributed ledger technology (DLT) has widespread applications in society 5.0
because it improves service efficiency and significantly reduces labor costs. However …

The development of high-speed SHA-2 hardware with high flexibility is urgently needed
because SHA-2 functions are widely employed in numerous fields, from loT devices to cryp …

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 …

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 …