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Re:Show HN: SHAllenge – Compete to get the lowest Hash by amenhotep on Saturday June 15, 2024 @10:37PM (#40694292)
There is really no point randomising at all, any cycles you spend on it are a total waste - one of the most important properties of a good hash algorithm is that a one bit change in the input should result in an output that's completely unrelated to the previous.

Your random number generator is pretty much equivalent to feeding a counter into SHA256, so using it as input is pretty much equivalent to hashing a counter twice. There's no point!

Re:Show HN: SHAllenge – Compete to get the lowest Hash by NAHWheatCracker on Saturday June 15, 2024 @11:00PM (#40694363)
Yea, I know. It makes me feel better this way, though.
Re:Show HN: SHAllenge – Compete to get the lowest Hash by NAHWheatCracker on Saturday June 15, 2024 @11:49PM (#40694554)
BTW, I changed it so it's iterative, getting 12.5 MH/s.