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Topic
Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Rule 30 automaton as hash function
by
Anders
on 29/07/2014, 15:44:21 UTC
I noticed that the rightmost bit in initial condition needs to be 1. If all the bits are zero on the right side of the initial condition then the hash values become nonrandom and with collisions for similar messages. The whole left side of the Rule 30 cellular automaton is nonrandom it seems.