Quote from: PenAndPaper on November 24, 2013, 12:14:31 PM

Quote from: stereotyyp on November 24, 2013, 11:40:42 AM

Quote from: PenAndPaper on November 24, 2013, 05:00:08 AM

People that are looking for conspiracies can find one everywhere. Bitcoin is conspiracy friendly anyway because we don't know the identity of Satoshi and because of other things that came to light like crypto algorithms being potentially rigged by the nsa.

So yeah - NSA designed SHA256 hash function that BitCoin is using. Strange.. Sure - hash functions might be rigged by them somehow.
Im not expert on cryptographics so i dont know how they could use it against Bitcoin.. Cheesy

That's well known and not strange at all. It's like saying that everything that uses a Sha functions is built by the government Tongue

Rigged algorithms nevertheless might be a real issue.

I dont know why Satoshi decided to pick SHA256 - it might be problem or might not be Tongue

I dont want to say that USA government is behind of BitCoin - that may be another topic (that Satoshi actually means something about new world order or he/she was government agent and so on..) Tongue

All i want to say, that everything that uses SHA functions MIGHT NOT be secure at all. It might be easily breakable by NSA. Roll Eyes