All 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 competi

All 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.