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any book or doc recommendations on sha256?

we’d be somewhere else entirely without it

Oof. I’m not home rn. But I have some bookmarks on all of SHA I’ll send you. It’s still an enigma to me.

Also still don’t know why Bitcoin is specifically SHA-256. I mean I could imagine why it wasn’t SHA-1 but I’m unsure why it wasn’t a different digest of SHA-2. Specifically SHA-512 or SHA-384?

Was SHA-256 enough and we didn’t need SHA-512 or SHA-384? If so, what was wrong with SHA-224?

I don’t know if I’ll ever fully understand SHA or CHF. But it’s cool as shit.

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SMS 2y ago

Good question.

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Beiner 2y ago

I believe he left the other 2 available just incase quantum breaks sha-256 we can implement sha-512 or sha-384

Disturbia 2y ago

if quantum breaks sha256, no sha solution will ever be safe

Beiner 2y ago

The others will because the best developers aren't even born yet

mcshane 2y ago

pls share when you can :)