Grøstl news

New and updated Grøstl implementations

Thanks to the student projects by Johannes Feichtner, Severin Holzer-Graf, Thomas Krinninger, Martin Pernull, David Seywald, and Wolfgang Wieser many improvements to Grøstl on different platforms (ranging from 8-bit to 256-bit) have been made.

New implementations of tweaked Grøstl

A large number of Grøstl implementations have been submitted to eBASH for benchmarking. Here are some results. For more information, see this page.

Digest sizeProcessorModeSpeed
224/256 NEW! Xeon (with AES-NI) 64-bit 11.3 cycles/byte
NEW! Core i7 (with AES-NI) 64-bit 11.5 cycles/byte
Phenom II 64-bit 19.4 cycles/byte
Opteron 64-bit 19.8 cycles/byte
384/512 NEW! Xeon (with AES-NI) 64-bit 16.0 cycles/byte
NEW! Core i7 (with AES-NI) 64-bit 15.6 cycles/byte
Phenom II 64-bit 31.7 cycles/byte
Opteron 64-bit 33.6 cycles/byte

Grøstl has been tweaked.

To increase the security margin, Grøstl has been tweaked. The changes are described in Round3Mods. The specification and the NIST submission package have been updated.

Grøstl is in the final!

The SHA-3 finalists have been chosen by NIST, and they are:

Grøstl in action

A team at the University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden Rüsselsheim Geisenheim (Germany), developed FPGA implementations of Grøstl. This paper (ePrint 2009/206) describes the implementations. The team set up a website that allows visitors to upload files to be hashed using their FPGA Grøstl implementation. The website features a webcam showing the board at work.

Grøstl status

The deadline for changing/tweaking SHA-3 candidates was September 15, 2009. However, Grøstl remains the same, i.e., it is defined exactly as specified in the original submission document. We have prepared an addendum for the submission explaining the state of the art with respect to analysis of Grøstl, and we also mention a few interesting alternative descriptions of Grøstl.

Grøstl in the second round

We are very happy to see Grøstl selected for the second round of the SHA-3 competition, along with 13 other candidates. See the full list of algorithms that are still in the competition.

Improved figures for hardware ASIC implementations

Stefan Tillich developed high-speed Grøstl-256 ASIC implementations in 0.18µm technology of UMC. Here are the synthesis results.

Total area (mm²)Total area (GE)Throughput (Gbit/s)
547,227.4758,4036.290
538,462.4157,4676.141
523,472.7455,8675.690
471,626.0650,3342.725