Lane is a

cryptographic hash function A cryptographic hash function (CHF) is a hash algorithm (a map of an arbitrary binary string to a binary string with fixed size of n bits) that has special properties desirable for cryptography: * the probability of a particular n-bit output re ...

submitted to the

NIST hash function competition The NIST hash function competition was an open competition held by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop a new hash function called SHA-3 to complement the older SHA-1 and SHA-2. The competition was formally ann ...

; it was designed by Sebastiaan Indesteege with contributions by Elena Andreeva, Christophe De Cannière,

Orr Dunkelman __INDEX__ Orr Dunkelman ( he, אור דונקלמן) is an Israeli cryptographer and cryptanalyst, currently a professor at the University of Haifa Computer Science department. Dunkelman is a co-director of the Center for Cyber Law & Privacy at ...

, Emilia Käsper, Svetla Nikova,

Bart Preneel Bart Preneel (born 15 October 1963 in Leuven, Belgium) is a Flemish cryptographer and cryptanalyst. He is a professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in the COSIC group. He was the president of the International Association for Cryptologic R ...

and Elmar Tischhauser. It re-uses many components from AES in a custom construction. The authors claim performance of up to 25.66

cycles per byte Encryption software is software that uses cryptography to prevent unauthorized access to digital information. Cryptography is used to protect digital information on computers as well as the digital information that is sent to other computers over t ...

on an Intel Core 2 Duo.

External links

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