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title: 'Re: Dealing with SHA-256 Collisions'
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parent: Bitcoin Forum
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date: 2010-06-14 20:39:50 UTC
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original: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=191.msg1585#msg1585
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# Re: Dealing with SHA-256 Collisions
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Re: Dealing with SHA-256 Collisions
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June 14, 2010, 08:39:50 PM
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SHA-256 is very strong. It's not like the incremental step from MD5 to SHA1. It can last several decades unless there's some massive breakthrough attack.
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If SHA-256 became completely broken, I think we could come to some agreement about what the honest block chain was before the trouble started, lock that in and continue from there with a new hash function.
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If the hash breakdown came gradually, we could transition to a new hash in an orderly way. The software would be programmed to start using a new hash after a certain block number. Everyone would have to upgrade by that time. The software could save the new hash of all the old blocks to make sure a different block with the same old hash can't be used.
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