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Bill Buchanan - The Cryptography of Bitcoin: The Hashing Methods for the Keys
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Bill Buchanan - The Cryptography of Bitcoin: The Hashing Methods for the Keys

ASecuritySite Podcast · Prof Bill Buchanan OBE

July 13, 202316m 45s

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Show Notes

In this podcast, we will outline some of the design choices that Satoshi Nakamoto made for the hashing of the private key to the public ID, especially on the selection of the two hashing methods of SHA-256 and RIPEMD160.