Developer Guide and Reference for Intel® Cryptography Primitives Library
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One-Way Hash Primitives
Hash functions are used in cryptography with digital signatures and for ensuring data integrity.
When used with digital signatures, a publicly available hash function hashes the message and signs the resulting hash value. The party who receives the message can then hash the message and check if the block size is authentic for the given hash value.
Hash functions are also referred to as “message digests” and “one-way encryption functions”. Both terms are appropriate since hash algorithms do not have a key like symmetric and asymmetric algorithms and you can recover neither the length nor the contents of the plaintext message from the ciphertext.
To ensure data integrity, hash functions are used to compute the hash value that corresponds to a particular input. Then, if necessary, you can check if the input data has remained unmodified; you can re-compute the hash value again using the available input and compare it to the original hash value.
The Hash Functions section describes functions that implement the following hash algorithms for streaming messages: MD5 RFC 1321, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 FIPS PUB 180-2, and SM3 SM3. These algorithms are widely used in enterprise applications nowadays.
Subsequent sections describe Hash Functions for Non-Streaming Messages, which apply hash algorithms to entire (non-streaming) messages, and Mask Generation Functions, whose algorithms are often based on hash computations.
Additionally, Intel® Cryptography Primitives Library supports two relatively new variants of SHA-512, the so called SHA-512/224 and SHA-512/256 algorithms. Both employ much of the basic SHA-512 algorithm but have some specifics. Intel® Cryptography Primitives Library does not provide a separate API exactly targeting SHA-512/224 and SHA-512/256. To enable SHA-512/224 and SHA-512/256, Intel® Cryptography Primitives Library declares extensions of the Hash Functions, Hash Functions for Non-Streaming Messages, Mask Generation Functions, and Keyed Hash Functions. These extensions use the IppHashAlgId enumerator associated with a particular hash algorithm as shown in the table below.
Value of IppHashAlgId |
Associated Hash Algorithm |
|---|---|
ippHashAlg_SHA1 |
SHA-1 |
ippHashAlg_SHA224 |
SHA-224 |
ippHashAlg_SHA256 |
SHA-256 |
ippHashAlg_SHA384 |
SHA-384 |
ippHashAlg_SHA512 |
SHA-512 |
ippHashAlg_SHA512_224 |
SHA-512/224 |
ippHashAlg_SHA512_256 |
SHA-512/256 |
ippHashAlg_MD5 |
MD5 |
ippHashAlg_SM3 |
SM3 |
Reduced Memory Footprint Functions
When your application uses the IppHashAlgId enumerator, it gets linked to all available hashing algorithm implementations. This results in unnecessary memory overhead if the application does not need all the algorithms. Intel® Cryptography Primitives Library includes a number of reduced memory footprint functions that allow you to select the exact hashing methods for your application’s needs. These functions have the _rmf suffix in their names and use pointers to IppsHashMethod structure variables instead of IppHashAlgId values. To get a pointer to a IppsHashMethod structure variable, call an appropriate function from the table below. See HashMethod for the syntax.
Function name |
Returns pointer to implementation of |
|---|---|
ippsHashMethod_SHA1 |
SHA1 (without the Intel® SHA-NI instruction set) |
ippsHashMethod_SHA1_NI |
SHA1 (using the Intel® SHA-NI instruction set) |
ippsHashMethod_SHA1_TT |
SHA1 (using the Intel® SHA-NI instructions set if it is available at run time) |
ippsHashMethod_SHA256 |
SHA256 (without the Intel® SHA-NI instruction set) |
ippsHashMethod_SHA256_NI |
SHA256 (using the Intel® SHA-NI instruction set) |
ippsHashMethod_SHA256_TT |
SHA256 (using the Intel® SHA-NI instructions set if it is available at run time) |
ippsHashMethod_SHA224 |
SHA224 (without the Intel® SHA-NI instruction set) |
ippsHashMethod_SHA224_NI |
SHA224 (using the Intel® SHA-NI instruction set) |
ippsHashMethod_SHA224_TT |
SHA224 (using the Intel® SHA-NI instructions set if it is available at run time) |
ippsHashMethod_SHA384 |
SHA384 |
ippsHashMethod_SHA512 |
SHA512 |
ippsHashMethod_SHA512_256 |
SHA512-256 |
ippsHashMethod_SHA512_224 |
SHA512-224 |
ippsHashMethod_MD5 |
MD5 |
ippsHashMethod_SM3 |
SM3 |
Important
The crypto community does not consider SHA-1 or MD5 algorithms secure anymore.Recommendation: use a more secure hash algorithm (for example, any algorithm from the SHA-2 family) instead of SHA-1 or MD5.