diff --git a/crypto/keccak/keccak_state.go b/crypto/keccak/keccak_state.go
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+package keccak
+
+// KeccakState wraps sha3.state. In addition to the usual hash methods, it also supports
+// Read to get a variable amount of data from the hash state. Read is faster than Sum
+// because it doesn't copy the internal state, but also modifies the internal state.
+type KeccakState struct {
+	state
+}
+
+func NewLegacyKeccak256State() *KeccakState {
+	return &KeccakState{state{rate: rateK512, outputLen: 32, dsbyte: dsbyteKeccak}}
+}