Author : Pooja Devi , Pooja Kaplesha, and Rajeev Sobti

This paper is to analyze the performance of Skein, Keccak and Grøstl Algorithm (SHA-3 candidates) on ARM Platform. ARM is world’s leading supplier of microprocessor technology and heart of digital electronic products. SHA-3 competition was announced by NIST on November 2, 2007 to complement the older one SHA-1 and SHA-2 hash algorithms. This paper is a proposal to present the comparison of three out of five SHA-3 final round candidates. These three algorithms will be analyzed on ARM Processor series: M4, ARM7TDMI and A9 to make a comparison of their performances.

Keywords: Cryptography, Hash Function, Sha-3, Arm Processor, Skein, Grøstl, Keccak Hash Standards, Security, Message Digest.

Article published in International Journal of Current  Engineering  and Technology, Vol.3,No.2 (June- 2013)