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Topic
Board Speculation
Re: Bitcoin vulnerability
by
raid_n
on 12/02/2014, 20:27:23 UTC
...[an incredibly beautiful jpg]...

...unless that is, in 2005 the NSA installed a PRNG backdoor in the AES-256 SHA-3 "NIST-approved" protocol for encryption, as Bruce Schneier et al. have shown long ago is highly probable.

Of course you did know that the public/private key algorithm used in bitcoin is ECDSA (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_Digital_Signature_Algorithm)
and this was just a fun fact  Roll Eyes