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From: rja14@cl.cam.ac.uk (Ross Anderson)
Subject: Re: hardware hash function
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Keywords: hash, MD5, DES, hardware, software
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Date: Sun, 2 May 1993 08:15:19 GMT
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In article <C6DEo6.uyE@watson.ibm.com>, basturk@watson.ibm.com (Erol Basturk) 
writes:

|>                          So, the question is: has a "fast" hash
|> function been designed for hardware implementation ? 

Yes, you can use a stream cipher chip to hash data with only slight 
modification. See:

`A fast cryptographic checksum algorithm based on stream ciphers', X Lai,
RA Rueppel, J Woolven, Auscrypt 92 pp 8-7 to 8-11.

Ross
