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This is a definition of the Birthday Attack.
Someone claims Bitcoin is vulnerable to such an attack in the bitcoin IRC chat.
Are they correct?
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This is a definition of the Birthday Attack.
Someone claims Bitcoin is vulnerable to such an attack in the bitcoin IRC chat.
Are they correct?
possible duplicate of Is Each Bitcoin Address Unique?
– Greg Hewgill – 2015-07-24T01:39:02.3001The question is different, and while the answer might be found within one of the answers to the alleged duplicate, it's difficult to extract. This question deserves an answer on its own, unless a better duplicate match is found. – Meni Rosenfeld – 2015-07-24T13:34:06.837
@MeniRosenfeld given I've read up on some cryptology things it was easy for me to find, but you're partly right. However, the Birthday Attack targets the same thing as the answer on the other question actually explains, so... – Thomas Ward – 2015-07-24T13:54:00.890
@MeniRosenfeld: Since the asker appears to agree that his question is answered with the duplicate master question, I'll leave it closed. Also, if it were reopened, it should be closed as a duplicate of the following question instead: Is it possible to brute force Bitcoin address creation in order to steal money?
– Murch – 2015-07-26T11:26:42.9031@Murch I don't have 'reopen' as an option like I do over on Ask Ubuntu, cause of low rep. The link you provided is a better duplicate than the one provided, but two days ago i was impatient. If you could reopen this and then seal it shut as a dupe of the question you just linked that'd work better. – Thomas Ward – 2015-07-26T15:55:50.617
@ThomasW.: Done. :) – Murch – 2015-07-27T09:06:09.773