| CPC G06F 16/24569 (2019.01) | 20 Claims |

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1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a hardware circuit of a device, a target value corresponding to a target data;
receiving, at the hardware circuit, source data;
generating, by the hardware circuit, a source value corresponding to the source data;
comparing, by the hardware circuit, the source value to the target value for a first match;
outputting, from the hardware circuit, based on the first match, a first indicator that the source data corresponds to the target value; and
based on the output of the first indicator from the hardware circuit, comparing, by software executing at the device, the source data to the target data for a second match; and
outputting, from the software executing at the device, a result indicator that the source data corresponds to the target data.
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