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It's not can it be broken, but when. It took 13 years for MD5 to be thoroughly broken. There are already theoretical attacks on SHA-256, which is one of the rea
by paxswill 15y ago
It's not can it be broken, but when. It took 13 years for MD5 to be thoroughly broken. There are already theoretical attacks on SHA-256, which is one of the reasons there is currently a competition for SHA-3. If Bitcoin is to be a currency, it needs to have long-term stability, which is not helped by basing itself on crypto-systems that will be broken eventually.