ASecuritySite Podcast
ASecuritySite Podcast
Professor Bill Buchanan OBE
Bill Buchanan - The Cryptography of Bitcoin: The Hashing Methods for the Keys
16 minutes Posted Jul 13, 2023 at 5:04 am.
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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.