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Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: NSA made Bitcoin?
by
Littleshop
on 19/11/2013, 13:28:27 UTC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2

This hash function was made by the NSA

The NSA standardized it and guided it's creation but did not invent the concept of it.  There were other (less secure) ways of doing this before SHA-2 not created by the NSA.