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author | Micah Elizabeth Scott <beth@torproject.org> | 2023-08-24 14:50:01 -0700 |
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committer | Micah Elizabeth Scott <beth@torproject.org> | 2023-08-24 14:50:01 -0700 |
commit | a86545438d953fb04a32afd771acd41804d0b27b (patch) | |
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Prop 327, Fix mistaken mention of floating point
This is a mistake I made earlier. I mentioned floating point performance
when describing HashX, there's no floating point in HashX.
HashX is based on SuperscalarHash which is a simplified dataset-bootstrapping
environment within RandomX. HashX and SuperscalarHash are integer-only,
only the full RandomX algorithm used floating point.
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diff --git a/proposals/327-pow-over-intro.txt b/proposals/327-pow-over-intro.txt index 3765b8b..db17c06 100644 --- a/proposals/327-pow-over-intro.txt +++ b/proposals/327-pow-over-intro.txt @@ -167,11 +167,11 @@ Status: Draft 1) At the lowest layers, blake2b and siphash are used as hashing and PRNG algorithms that are well suited to common 64-bit CPUs. - 2) A custom hash function, HashX, uses dynamically generated functions that - are tuned to be a good match for pipelined integer and floating point - performance on current 64-bit CPUs. This layer provides the strongest ASIC - resistance, since a reimplementation in hardware would need to implement - much of a CPU to compute these functions efficiently. + 2) A custom hash function family, HashX, randomizes its implementation for + each new seed value. These functions are tuned to utilize the pipelined + integer performance on a modern 64-bit CPU. This layer provides the + strongest ASIC resistance, since a hardware reimplementation would need + to include a CPU-like pipelined execution unit to keep up. 3) The Equi-X layer itself builds on HashX and adds an algorithmic puzzle that's designed to be strongly asymmetric and to require RAM to solve efficiently. |