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by hackcasual 1896 days ago
A large part of that would be better support for integer math, and 64 bit in particular for sha1
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CodesInChaos 1896 days ago
Why are 64-bit integers useful for SHA-1 which uses 32-bit words?
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vnorilo 1896 days ago
The full product of 32-bit multiply is 64-bit.
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CodesInChaos 1895 days ago
I don't think SHA-1 uses any multiplications, only bitwise operations (not, and, or, xor), addition and rotation.
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