[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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