US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 17 for "High throughput data flow for SHA-2 hashing module" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,368, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"High throughput data flow for SHA-2 hashing module" was invented by Silvia Melitta Mueller (St. Ingbert, Germany), Manoj Kumar (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Niels Fricke (Herrenberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method, a system, a computer program product, an Application Specific Integrated Circuit, and a cryptographic module, where a partitioning is performed of a SHA-2 state update into three blocks. A set of operations associated with the three blocks are executed in a pipelined manner, where each block feeds bac...