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Re:How SHA-2 works step-by-step (SHA-256) by decasteve on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:06PM (#23851836)
It is useful to ask why. The constants are often for confusion and diffusion properties: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusion_and_diffusion
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