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I find it interesting that the contributors work for semiconductor companies. I would've thought that something like this would be more likely to emerge from a
by JL2010 14y ago
I find it interesting that the contributors work for semiconductor companies. I would've thought that something like this would be more likely to emerge from a team with a mathematics/CS/academic background more so than hardware. Perhaps these algorithms can (and will) be going strait into some new hardware cryptography IP cores?
- unix-dude 14y agoI only tangentially follow the semiconductor companies... However, I know several advanced algorithms in the realm of cryptography can be computationally expensive, and as demand for security grows, several of these semiconductor companies have implemented things in the hardware to optimize certain forms of encryption. (I can't remember if it was Intel or AMD that released a chip with some sort of built-in support for security). This is just a theory, but if they're going down this road, it would make sense for them to develop a highly secure algorithm that they know can be easily implemented and optimized on the hardware level. If they're developing specialized algorithms AND hardware, they can probably take it into account during the design process and further optimize their boards. Or, a bunch of semiconductor guys are also crypto-geeks. Which is pretty likely anyway :D.
- novalis 14y agoYou were maybe thinking of Intel® vPro™ Technology ?
- lmz 14y agoAES-NI perhaps: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/advanced-encryption-standard--aes-/data-protection-aes-general-technology.html http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tech...
- pjscott 14y agoAll of the SHA-3 candidates were designed to be implementable in fast hardware. Here's a comparison of some of the hardware designs evaluated during the competition: http://ehash.iaik.tugraz.at/wiki/SHA-3_Hardware_Implementations http://ehash.iaik.tugraz.at/wiki/SHA-3_Hardware_Implementati... Keccak is one of the most amenable to hardware acceleration, but all of the finalists were good in both hardware and software.
- cokernel_hacker 14y agoThey are all cryptographers and at least three of them have deep academic backgrounds... Guido Bertoni: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/b/Bertoni:Guido.html http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/b/... Joan Daemen: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/d/Daemen:Joan.html http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/d/... Gilles Van Assche: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/a/Assche:Gilles_Van.html http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/a/... Joan Daemen has a PhD, his thesis was "Cipher and Hash Function Design. Strategies based on linear and differential cryptanalysis" Gilles Van Assche was a PhD student at the University of Brussels studying "classical and quantum information theory" (http://gva.noekeon.org/ http://gva.noekeon.org/)
- zhuzhuor 14y agoJust to add another fact here: Daemen is also one of the two co-authors of AES