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It’s really remarkable how a few primes and successive add, rotate, and xor operations can give (seemingly) completely random bit patterns, consistently for dif
by le-mark 5y ago
It’s really remarkable how a few primes and successive add, rotate, and xor operations can give (seemingly) completely random bit patterns, consistently for different inputs. It’s almost unreasonably effective (referring to sha255 algorithm here although hash algorithms also like Blake and salsa etc).