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Re: NSA made Bitcoin?
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Littleshop
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19/11/2013, 13:28:27 UTC
Quote from: Trance on November 19, 2013, 07:05:46 AM
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.