Lane is a cryptographic hash function

Cryptographic hash function

A cryptographic hash function is a deterministic procedure that takes an arbitrary block of data and returns a fixed-size bit string, the hash value, such that an accidental or intentional change to the data will change the hash value...

 submitted to the NIST hash function competition

NIST hash function competition

The NIST hash function competition is an open competition held by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology for a new SHA-3 function to replace the older SHA-1 and SHA-2, which was formally announced in the Federal Register on November 2, 2007...

; it was designed by Sebastiaan Indesteege with contributions by Elena Andreeva, Christophe De Cannière, Orr Dunkelman, Emilia Käsper, Svetla Nikova, Bart Preneel

Bart Preneel

Bart Preneel is a Belgian cryptographer and cryptanalyst. He is a professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in the COSIC group, president of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, and project manager of ECRYPT....

 and Elmar Tischhauser. It re-uses many components from AES

Advanced Encryption Standard

Advanced Encryption Standard is a specification for the encryption of electronic data. It has been adopted by the U.S. government and is now used worldwide. It supersedes DES...

 in a custom construction. The authors claim performance of up to 25.66 cycles per byte

Cycles per byte

Cycles per byte is a unit of measurement which indicates the number of clock cycles a microprocessor will perform per byte of data processed in an algorithm. It is commonly used as a partial indicator of real-world performance in cryptographic functions....

on an Intel Core 2 Duo.

External links

• The Lane web site