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Re: is sha256 for a private key really secure?
by
DannyHamilton
on 25/03/2013, 11:07:39 UTC
I should caution anyone else that SHA256 hashing doesn't magically make things more secure . . .

Yes.  I stated that passing an already sufficiently secure private key through SHA-256 wouldn't make it any more secure than it was to start with, however I failed to point out (as you have) that passing an insufficiently secure seed through SHA-256 also wouldn't make it significantly more secure than it was to start with.

SHA-256 is a reasonable way to take something that already has more than 256 bits of entropy and convert it into a 256 bit number that can potentially be used as a private key.