We show that the 4-lanes SHA-256 is faster than the two SHA3 finalists (BLAKE and Keccak) that have a published tree mode implementation. http://eprint.iacr.o

We show that the 4-lanes SHA-256 is faster than the two SHA3 finalists (BLAKE and Keccak) that have a published tree mode implementation. http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/476.pdf http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/476.pdf [PDF] As for AES instruction -- Skein and BLAKE are still faster http://bench.cr.yp.to/results-sha3.html http://bench.cr.yp.to/results-sha3.html