25-08-2017, 09:32 PM
HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF MD5
Abstract:- Hardware implementation aspects of the MD5 hash algorithm are discussed in this paper. A general architecture for MD5 is proposed and several implementations are presented. An extensive study of effects of pipelining on delay, area requirements and throughput is performed, and finally certain architectures are recommended and compared to other published MD5 designs. Hash algorithms are used widely in cryptographic protocols and Internet communication in general. Several widely used hash algorithms exist. One of the most famous is the MD5 message digest algorithm developed by Ronald Rivest. Hash algorithms, also called as message digest algorithms, are algorithms, which generate a unique message, digest for an arbitrary message. The digest can be considered as a fingerprint of the message and it must have the following properties: first, the hash must be easy to compute. Second, it must be very hard to compute the message from the digest and, third, it must be hard to find another message, which has the same message digest as the first message.