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hashx

Hash function family designed for ASIC-resistant client puzzles

by The Tor Project, Inc.. Owned by Nick Mathewson, Ian Jackson, Gabi Moldovan, David Goulet.

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hashx

hashx: Rust reimplementation of tevador's HashX ASIC-resistant hash function

This is an ASIC-resistant hash function designed by tevador as a lightweight variant of RandomX's SuperscalarHash, optimized for Tor's client puzzle use case. Check out tevador's dev log for more information.

This is for Tor client puzzle support in Arti. (#889)

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