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Episode 250: What's the Deal with Hash Functions?
Zero Knowledge
How to Design a Cryptocurrency Hash Function
Some people are born with the capacity of designing good things but most of others they actually learn from breaking so you're kind of supposed to break things several times before you learn how to design a good one. I would like to add to the previous comment by GP about also too much crypto indeed some cryptographers are scary of not only of modern hash functions but also of older hash function that don't have a security proof. But here we would add that this hash functions I usually should not be considered just as black box so they when we mentioned some number of rounds this rounds means that the hash function is built as a sequence of more or less identical components and the history of design and analysis it's
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