[Cryptography] mathematical constants

Pierre Abbat phma at bezitopo.org
Sun Jun 7 18:53:49 EDT 2026


Is there a place where we can collect mathematical constants for use as 
nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers? Pi has been used in MD2 and Blowfish, SHA-1 uses 
square roots of primes, Twistree (hash function I invented) uses two 
representations of exp(4), and many cryptographic algorithms use φ. I thought 
of computing the 2-adic sum of all factorials, and found that the alternating 
sum of all factorials (which converges in all p-adic systems) is equal to the 
Gompertz constant (in the same way that you can add all positive integers and 
get -1/12).

Pierre
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