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Re: Why does Bitcoin keep using SHA256 in its POW?
by
Carlton Banks
on
19/04/2018, 12:38:23 UTC
Quote from: Austin Alexis on April 19, 2018, 12:34:48 PM
That is a good question. Especially given AES256 is more secure (advanced encryption standards) I think its probably a case that sha is still good enough to do the job
AES is an encryption algorithm, not a hashing algorithm.