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hash-functions
- Jan 13, 2026 Transcript Hashing and Handshake Binding in TLS 1.3 How a running hash over handshake messages commits each flight to the ones before it, which secrets consume the digest, and what breaks when a message is left out of it. cryptography
- Nov 24, 2025 Random Oracle Model Arguments and Their Limits What a proof in the random oracle model actually establishes, why a hash can be instantiated by a construction with an obvious weakness, and how to read a ROM proof without overclaiming. cryptography
- Jul 29, 2025 Hash Functions for Table Indexing: Mixing, Avalanche, and Universal Families What a table hash must satisfy beyond producing an integer, why identity hashing fails on power-of-two tables, and how multiply-shift and finalizers repair weak input bits. data structures
- Feb 25, 2025 What a SHA-512 Integrity Hash in Package Metadata Actually Proves Subresource Integrity, package lockfile digests, and Go checksums look alike but answer different questions about who computed the hash and what it covers. security
- Oct 19, 2023 Deriving k Bloom Filter Probes from Two Hash Words Why the h1 + i·h2 construction preserves the false-positive bound, where the independence assumption breaks, and what enhanced double hashing repairs. data structures