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Re:How SHA-2 works step-by-step (SHA-256) by derefr on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:49PM (#23854429)
> It's an algorithm, so you're probably looking for a higher level block diagram or something like a pseudocode explainer?

Not so much. What I'd really like is a differential design analysis, i.e. "if it didn't do [this step], then the output distribution would look like [graph] instead of [graph], or it would be vulnerable to [attack]" or "if, instead of doing [step] here, it did [other step], then we would have what is known as the [some other algorithm]."

Re:How SHA-2 works step-by-step (SHA-256) by SilasX on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:26PM (#23855418)
Echoing this request -- knowing this stuff also helps make sense of seemingly bizarre parts of the system.