Gavin Andresen - 2010-07-15 01:05:21

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If I understand correctly, you've got two chances to find a collision instead of one.

So this decreases the security of SHA256 by a factor of 2... which is just Not a Big Deal.  Bitcoin is using, essentially SHA255 instead of SHA256.  It'll still take longer than forever to find a collision...