Embeddable, dependency-free, MIT-0 licensed C11 implementation of the SHA-3 cryptographic hash functions, eXtendable Output Functions (XOFs), and Hash-based Message Authentication Code functions (HMAC) defined in FIPS 202, SP 800-185, and the draft KangarooTwelve and TurboSHAKE specification.

Includes AVX-512 acceleration, Doxygen-friendly API documentation, and a full test suite with sanitizers enabled and test vectors from the NIST CSRC "Examples With Intermediate Values" site, the NIST Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program (CAVP), and the Test Vectors section of the draft KangarooTwelve and TurboSHAKE specification.

The following algorithms are implemented:

SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, and SHA3-512: SHA-3 cryptographic hash functions, as defined in section 6.1 of FIPS 202.
SHAKE128 and SHAKE256: XOFs as defined in section 6.2 of FIPS 202.
HMAC-SHA3-224, HMAC-SHA3-256, HMAC-SHA3-384, HMAC-SHA3-512: HMAC instantiated with SHA-3 hash functions, as specified in section 7 of FIPS 202, RFC 2104, and FIPS 198-1.
cSHAKE128, cSHAKE128-XOF, cSHAKE256, and cSHAKE256-XOF: Fixed-length and XOF variants of the customizable-SHAKE primitive, as defined in section 3 of SP 800-185.
KMAC128, KMAC128-XOF, KMAC256 and KMAC256-XOF: Keccak Message Authentication Code (MAC), as defined in section 4 of SP 800-185.
TupleHash128, TupleHash128-XOF, TupleHash256, and TupleHash256-XOF: Misuse-resistant hash function and XOF for hashing a tuple of byte strings, as defined in section 5 of SP 800-185.
ParallelHash128, ParallelHash128-XOF, ParallelHash256, and ParallelHash256-XOF: Hash function and XOF, as defined in section 6 of SP 800-185.
TurboSHAKE128 and TurboSHAKE256: Faster, reduced-round XOFs, as defined in the draft KangarooTwelve and TurboSHAKE specification.
KangarooTwelve: Faster, reduced-round XOF with a customzation string, as defined in the draft KangarooTwelve and TurboSHAKE specification.

Use make to build a shared library and minimal sample application, make doc to generate HTML-formatted API documentation, and make test to run the test suite.

Examples

Calculate the SHA3-256 hash of a test string and print the result to standard output:

// sha3-256-example: print sha3-256 hash of data to standard output.
#include <stdint.h> // uint8_t
#include <stdio.h> // printf()
#include "hex.h" // hex_write()
#include "sha3.h" // sha3_256()
 
// test data
static const uint8_t DATA[] = "this is some test data";
 
int main(void) {
  // hash `DATA` into `buf`
  uint8_t buf[32] = { 0 };
  sha3_256(DATA, sizeof(DATA), buf);
 
  // print result to stdout
  printf("SHA3-256: ");
  hex_write(stdout, buf, sizeof(buf));
  printf("\n");
 
  return 0;
}

Calculate the SHAKE128 hash of a test string and print the first 200 bytes to standard output:

//
// shake128-example: hash contents of DATA with SHAKE128 and print first
// 200 bytes of SHAKE128 hash of data to standard output.
//
#include <stdint.h> // uint8_t
#include <stdio.h> // printf()
#include "hex.h" // hex_write()
#include "sha3.h" // shake128()
 
// test data
static const uint8_t DATA[] = "this is some test data";
 
int main(void) {
  // hash data
  uint8_t buf[200] = { 0 };
  shake128(DATA, sizeof(DATA), buf, sizeof(buf));
 
  // print result to stdout
  printf("SHAKE128 (200 bytes): ");
  hex_write(stdout, buf, sizeof(buf));
  printf("\n");
 
  return 0;
}

TurboSHAKE128 example, using the iterative API:

//
// turboshake128-example: Absorb 4096 bytes of data from /dev/urandom in
// 1024 byte chunks, hash it with TurboShake128, then print 128 bytes of
// result in 32 byte chunks (hex-encoded) to standard output.
// output.
//
#include <stdint.h> // uint8_t
#include <stdio.h> // fopen(), fread(), fclose(), printf()
#include <err.h> // err(), warn()
#include "hex.h" // hex_write()
#include "sha3.h" // turboshake128_*()
 
int main(void) {
  // init turboshake
  turboshake_t ts;
  turboshake128_init(&ts);
 
  // open source
  FILE *fh = fopen("/dev/urandom", "rb");
  if (!fh) {
    err(-1, "fopen()");
  }
 
  {
    // read and absorb
    uint8_t buf[1024] = { 0 };
    for (size_t i = 0; i < 4096/sizeof(buf); i++) {
      // read data
      if (!fread(buf, sizeof(buf), 1, fh)) {
        err(-1, "fread()");
      }
 
      // absorb
      turboshake128_absorb(&ts, buf, sizeof(buf));
    }
  }
 
  // close source
  if (!fclose(fh)) {
    warn("fclose()");
  }
 
 
  printf("TurboShake128 output:\n");
  {
    // squeeze in 32 byte chunks, write to stdout
    uint8_t buf[32] = { 0 };
    for (size_t ofs = 0; ofs < 128; ofs += sizeof(buf)) {
      turboshake128_squeeze(&ts, buf, sizeof(buf));
      hex_write(stdout, buf, sizeof(buf));
    }
  }
  printf("\n");
 
  return 0;
}

See the examples/ directory for more.

Usage

To use this library in your application:

Copy sha3.h and sha3.c into your source tree.
Update your build system to compile sha3.o. See the Makefile for compiler flags.
Include sha3.h in your application.

See the top-level Makefile and the examples for recommended compiler flags.

Documentation

Full API documentation is available online here and in the comments of sha3.h. If you have Doxygen installed, you can generate HTML-formatted API documentation by typing make doc.

Tests

Use make test to build and run the test suite.

The test suite checks each component of this implementation for expected answers and is built with several sanitizers supported by both GCC and Clang. The source code for the test suite is embedded at the bottom of sha3.c behind a TEST_SHA3 define.

An additional set of tests for the FIPS 202 hash and XOFs is available in tests/cavp-tests/. These test cases are generated from the Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program (CAVP) byte test vectors, and are excluded from the main test suite because of their size.

Backends

This library includes several accelerated backends which are selectable at compile time via the SHA3_BACKEND make argument and define. By default the fastest backend is selected at compile-time.

The available backends are:

Scalar (SHA3_BACKEND=1): Default if no faster backend is available.
AVX-512 (SHA3_BACKEND=2): AVX-512 acceleration. Selected by default if AVX-512 is supported.
Neon (SHA3_BACKEND=3): ARM Neon acceleration. Currently slower than the scalar backend on ARM CPUs and not enabled by default.

The name of the selected backend is available at run-time via the sha3_backend() function. See the tests/bench/ for examples of the SHA3_BACKEND make argument and the sha3_backend() function.

Benchmarks

A minimal libcpucycles-based benchmarking tool is available in tests/bench/. The bench tool measures the median cycles per byte (cpb) for a variety of message lengths, then prints a table of results to standard output in CSV format.

The results from running bench on a couple of my systems are available in the tables below.

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, 6th Gen (i7-1185G7, AVX-512 Backend)

function	64	256	1024	4096	16384
sha3-224	15.4	7.8	7.8	7.1	7.0
sha3-256	15.4	7.8	7.8	7.6	7.4
sha3-384	15.5	11.7	9.8	9.8	9.7
sha3-512	15.4	15.5	14.6	13.9	13.9
shake128	15.5	7.8	6.9	6.2	6.1
shake256	15.6	7.8	7.9	7.6	7.4

Raspberry Pi 5 (Cortex-A76, Scalar Backend)

function	64	256	1024	4096	16384
sha3-224	20.2	10.3	10.3	9.3	9.2
sha3-256	20.2	10.3	10.3	9.9	9.7
sha3-384	20.9	15.3	12.8	12.7	12.5
sha3-512	20.2	20.2	18.9	25.3	17.9
shake128	20.2	10.1	9.0	8.1	7.9
shake256	20.2	10.3	10.3	9.9	9.7

Odroid N2L (Cortex-A73, Scalar Backend)

function	64	256	1024	4096	16384
sha3-224	34.0	16.1	15.5	14.0	13.7
sha3-256	34.0	16.1	15.4	14.8	14.4
sha3-384	34.0	23.4	19.0	18.8	18.6
sha3-512	34.0	30.8	28.1	26.5	26.5
shake128	34.0	16.1	13.6	12.1	11.8
shake256	34.0	16.1	15.5	14.8	14.4

References

License

MIT No Attribution (MIT-0)

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