Timeline for Why are cube and square roots of primes used as SHA constants?
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| Dec 4, 2016 at 16:41 | vote | accept | Professor Hantzen | ||
| Dec 1, 2016 at 11:38 | comment | added | Paul Uszak | @RichieFrame Are you referring to my note? What I meant is that powers of 2 is very much like binary multiplication and shift operations. That's what mixing functions do. That's getting to be a very close association between constants and their usage. This could(?) significantly affect the behaviour. | |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 7:16 | comment | added | Richie Frame | The most simple constants I have seen are those used by Keccak, which are 64-bit values from a LFSR comprised mostly of 0 bits | |
| Nov 30, 2016 at 22:22 | history | edited | Paul Uszak | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Another example added
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| Nov 30, 2016 at 17:24 | history | answered | Paul Uszak | CC BY-SA 3.0 |