US Patent Issued to Intel on May 5 for "SM3 hash algorithm acceleration processors, methods, systems, and instructions" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,126, issued on May 5, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"SM3 hash algorithm acceleration processors, methods, systems, and instructions" was invented by Shay Gueron (Haifa, Israel) and Vlad Krasnov (Nesher, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor includes a decode unit to decode an SM3 two round state word update instruction. The instruction is to indicate one or more source packed data operands. The source packed data operand(s) are to have eight 32-bit state words Aj, Bj, Cj, Dj, Ej, Fj, Gj, and Hj that are to correspond to a round (j) of an SM3 hash algorithm. The source packed data operand(s) are also to ...