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

• Published in: EUROCON 2005 - The International Conference on "Computer as a Tool" Vol. 2; pp. 1875 - 1878
• Main Authors: Yiakoumis, I., Papadonikolakis, M., Michail, H., Kakarountas, A.P., Goutis, C.E.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2005
• Subjects: Application software; Ash; Decision support systems; Digital signatures; hash function; high-speed HMAC; Message authentication; Public key cryptography; Security; Throughput; Very large scale integration; Virtual private networks; VLSI implementation
• DOI: 10.1109/EURCON.2005.1630347
• ISBN: 9781424400492; 142440049X

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