13th Generation Intel® Core™ and Intel® Core™ 14th Generation Processors
Datasheet, Volume 1 of 2
Supporting 13th Generation Intel® Core™ Processor for S, H, P, HX, and U Processor Line Platforms, formerly known as Raptor Lake, Intel® Core™ 14th Generation Processor for S, HX, and U Processor Line Platform, formerly known as Raptor Lake Refresh and Intel® Xeon™ E 2400 Processor, formerly known As Raptor Lake–E
Intel® Secure Hash Algorithm Extensions
The Intel® Secure Hash Algorithm Extensions (Intel® SHA Extensions) is one of the most commonly employed cryptographic algorithms. Primary usages of SHA include data integrity, message authentication, digital signatures, and data de-duplication. As the pervasive use of security solutions continues to grow, SHA can be seen in more applications now than ever. The Intel® SHA Extensions are designed to improve the performance of these compute-intensive algorithms on Intel® architecture-based processors.
The Intel® SHA Extensions are a family of seven instructions based on the Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions (Intel® SSE) that are used together to accelerate the performance of processing SHA-1 and SHA-256 on Intel architecture-based processors. Given the growing importance of SHA in our everyday computing devices, the new instructions are designed to provide a needed boost of performance to hashing a single buffer of data. The performance benefits will not only help improve responsiveness and lower power consumption for a given application, but they may also enable developers to adopt SHA in new applications to protect data while delivering to their user experience goals. The instructions are defined in a way that simplifies their mapping into the algorithm processing flow of most software libraries, thus enabling easier development.
More information on Intel® SHA can be found at:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/artTGLes/intel-sha-extensions