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Re:Large Bitcoin Collider Is Generating Trillions of Keys an... by mankash666 on Saturday April 15, 2017 @02:29PM (#14122039)
If collisions exist in the hashing algorithm, how you derive the seed for a random number generator is pointless
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Re:Large Bitcoin Collider Is Generating Trillions of Keys an... by Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd on Saturday April 15, 2017 @04:38PM (#14122725)
Every hashing algorithm has collisions, for good cryptographic ones there's just no practical way of finding them.
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Re:Large Bitcoin Collider Is Generating Trillions of Keys an... by estro on Saturday April 15, 2017 @09:24PM (#14123847)
There is no practical way of finding a collision for a specific key. Finding collisions to one of the created keys non-specifically is a much smaller search space.
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