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Researcher Discovered the NIST Specification on SHA256 Prime Values is Incorrect

"According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 180-2, 'These words represent the first thirty-two bits of the fracitonal parts of t he cube roots of the first sixty-four prime numbers.'

No reason was provided as to why these values were selected...

Close examination of the SHA-256 constants reveals that only four of the numbers are actually prime numbers.

Source = https://www.femto-second.com/papers/SHA256LimitedStatisticalAnalysis.pdf

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Researcher Discovered the NIST Specification on SHA256 Prime Values is Incorrect

"According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 180-2, 'These words represent the first thirty-two bits of the fracitonal parts of t he cube roots of the first sixty-four prime numbers.'

No reason was provided as to why these values were selected...

Close examination of the SHA-256 constants reveals that only four of the numbers are actually prime numbers.

Source = https://www.femto-second.com/papers/SHA256LimitedStatisticalAnalysis.pdf

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