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Re: What exactly are Hashes and how are they created
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DannyHamilton
on 30/05/2013, 21:46:23 UTC
Just remember that the road of the past few decades is littered with broken hashes: MD4, MD5, SHA0, SHA1 and many others.

And yet bitcoin could use anyone of them today instead of SHA2 and there wouldn't be a security issue.

The fact that a weakness is discovered in a particular hashing algorithm doesn't necessarily mean that the algorithm is then immediately useless for all purposes.