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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Can coins be destroyed in a more 'polite' way?
by
Kazimir
on 16/03/2014, 18:29:01 UTC
Wikipedia is full of mistakes. I am sure there is SHA-1024 product coming out, the guy is making the hardware and applying for license...
There is no SHA-1024. And if there was, it would have been open source and not requiring any license whatsoever.

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All besides the point, point being why would anyone use SHA-512 then if SHA-256 is impossible to break in this time and space?
Because some day, someone smart may discover a mathematical weakness in SHA-256 and attacking it may become significantly more efficient than just brute forcing 2256 possibilities.