G-SM3: High-Performance Implementation of GPU-based SM3 Hash Function

Hash is one of the most important algorithms of cryptography, it is widely used in cryptographic primitives, such as digital signature, key exchange and so on. Further, hash cryptography is also the core operation of blockchain technology. With the explosive growth of the number of IoT devices and the rapid development of blockchain technology, the computing performance of hash has received widespread attention. The GPU high-performance computing platforms with a number of arithmetic cores are widely used in cryptographic optimization and acceleration. In this paper, we propose an efficient parallel accelerated framework of SM3 cryptography hash function based on GPU parallel computing devices, short for GPU-based SM3 (G-SM3). Our G-SM3 optimizes the implementation of the hash cryptographic algorithm from three aspects: parallelism, memory access and instructions. On the desktop GPU NVIDIA Titan V, the peak performance of G-SM3 reaches 23 GB/s, which is more than 7.5 times the performance of OpenSSL on a top-level server CPU (E5-2699V3) with 16 cores. On the embedded GPU which consumes less than 40 W, the SM3 throughput reaches 3.8 GB/s, which is even better than the performance of the serverlevel CPU. Based on the same GTX 1080, our performance is 1.12 times that of the fastest known GPU implementation, and the latency is reduced by more than 95%. Compared to other platforms, our G-SM3 has a huge advantage.