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SHA-3 hardware acceleration

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Dec 19, 2025 · 18:16

Does anyone know if proper SHA-3 acceleration is on the horizon for server and consumer hardware? Right now AFAIK only z/Arch has SHA-3 fully implemented in hardware, other architectures only have specific instructions for speeding up particular operations used within SHA-3.

With Sphincs+'s performance being so heavily tied to the speed of hashing, it'd be nice to see faster hashing become available.