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by pjscott 5012 days ago
All of the SHA-3 candidates were designed to be implementable in fast hardware. Here's a comparison of some of the hardware designs evaluated during the competition:

http://ehash.iaik.tugraz.at/wiki/SHA-3_Hardware_Implementati...

Keccak is one of the most amenable to hardware acceleration, but all of the finalists were good in both hardware and software.