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Bitcoin networks surpasses 2^80 hashes per week
- To: Ryan Carboni <[email protected]>
- Subject: Bitcoin networks surpasses 2^80 hashes per week
- From: [email protected] (CodesInChaos)
- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 19:47:47 +0100
- Cc: cpunks <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Ryan Carboni <[email protected]> wrote:
> Naturally even a 2^64 collision attack requires implausible amounts of
> storage, so properly designed hash functions should be secure for the
> indefinite future.
That'd only be the case for a naive collision finding attack. But
there are attacks that require little memory. Search for
"distinguished points".