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hemera/docs/explanation/capacity
structured capacity: one function, unlimited contexts the problem Hemera must produce different hashes for different structural contexts. a Merkle leaf and a Merkle internal node might receive identical input bytes, but they must produce different outputs β otherwise an attacker could substitute aβ¦
hemera/reference/capacity
structured capacity the Hemera sponge state is 16 Goldilocks field elements. the first 8 (rate) absorb input and produce output. the last 8 (capacity) carry structural context β they are never overwritten by input data. this is how Hemera achieves domain separation without multiple modes. layoutβ¦