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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Final word: SHA256 not "hacked", collisions, preimage resistance, cluesticks
by
hoo2jalu
on 22/06/2011, 13:38:16 UTC
Well, if you can get to the passwords ...

Let me make this real clear: SHA256 is part of the cryptographic underpinnings of bitcoin itself.

All the client software and exchangers and third party sites and password practices of users themselves are a completely different problem and horribly insecure by comparison.

But SHA256? No worries. It won't be broken in a way useful for forging bitcoin transactions any time this decade, and probably not this century or the next...