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Yes that is correct. SHA256 is not known to be vulnerable to quantum computers[^], ECDSA (Bitcoin's public/private key algorithm) is. [^] There is a known quan
by gibybo 13y ago
Yes that is correct. SHA256 is not known to be vulnerable to quantum computers[^], ECDSA (Bitcoin's public/private key algorithm) is.
[^] There is a known quantum attack against SHA256 that reduces the brute force search space from 2^256 to 2^128, but that wouldn't really break the Bitcoin protocol. The ECDSA quantum vulnerability, however, would make ECDSA essentially useless.