Bitcoin networks surpasses 2^80 hashes per week

CodesInChaos codesinchaos at gmail.com
Mon Dec 8 10:47:47 PST 2014


On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Ryan Carboni <ryacko at gmail.com> 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".



More information about the cypherpunks mailing list