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diff --git a/crypto/nhpoly1305.c b/crypto/nhpoly1305.c index c8385853f699d..ec831a5594d8f 100644 --- a/crypto/nhpoly1305.c +++ b/crypto/nhpoly1305.c @@ -9,15 +9,15 @@ * "NHPoly1305" is the main component of Adiantum hashing. * Specifically, it is the calculation * - * H_M ← Poly1305_{K_M}(NH_{K_N}(pad_{128}(M))) + * H_L ← Poly1305_{K_L}(NH_{K_N}(pad_{128}(L))) * - * from the procedure in section A.5 of the Adiantum paper [1]. It is an - * ε-almost-∆-universal (εA∆U) hash function for equal-length inputs over + * from the procedure in section 6.4 of the Adiantum paper [1]. It is an + * ε-almost-∆-universal (ε-∆U) hash function for equal-length inputs over * Z/(2^{128}Z), where the "∆" operation is addition. It hashes 1024-byte * chunks of the input with the NH hash function [2], reducing the input length * by 32x. The resulting NH digests are evaluated as a polynomial in * GF(2^{130}-5), like in the Poly1305 MAC [3]. Note that the polynomial - * evaluation by itself would suffice to achieve the εA∆U property; NH is used + * evaluation by itself would suffice to achieve the ε-∆U property; NH is used * for performance since it's over twice as fast as Poly1305. * * This is *not* a cryptographic hash function; do not use it as such! |