Quote from: R2D221 on April 28, 2015, 01:52:40 AM

Quote from: no-ice-please on April 27, 2015, 10:22:11 PM

I do not trust an algorithm developed by the nsa.

Why so many people are so quick to use weak arguments to defend the use of an nsa algorithm in bitcoin, I don't know.

I'm not defending the NSA algorithm. I'm truly concerned with your lack of trust of them, but when I ask you what other alternatives you have considered, you start attacking me repeating again and again that I'm defending them.

And I'm truly concerned by your trust in the NSA.

As for alternatives, again, I'm not in that business but did not litecoin quickly find an alternative that was developed privately and whose security does not involve trusting the NSA?

From Wikipedia
"As of 2009, the two most commonly used cryptographic hash functions are MD5 and SHA-1. However, MD5 has been broken; an attack against it was used to break SSL in 2008.[9]
The SHA-0 and SHA-1 hash functions were developed by the NSA."

Did the NSA pay a $10 million bribe to RSA to secretly weaken some respected cryptographic tool? Are those articles false? Or are sha backers saying the RSA bribe was a one time thing and the NSA would never do something like that again?