A Study on Area-Efficient Design of Unified MD5 and HAS-160 Hash Algorithms

This paper deals with hardware design which unifies MD5 and HAS-160 hash algorithms. Two algorithms get a message with arbitrary length and process message blocks divided into 512 bits each time and output a hash code with a fixed length. MD5 ouputs a hash code of 128 bits and HAS-160 a hash code of 160 bits. The unified hash core designed has 32% of slices overhead compared to HAS-160 core. However, there is only a fixed message buffer space used. The unified hash core which run a step in one clock cycle operates at 92MHz and has performance which digests a message in the speed of 724Mbps at MD5 and 581Mbps at HAS-160 hash mode. The unified hash core which is designed can be applicable to the areas such as E-commerce, data integrity and digital signature.