Bitcoin NSA? Research links.

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Just noticed another thread on this subject so here is a place to post only links.

Some to start...

https://mobile.twitter.com/csoghoian/status/375722670253686784

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=288545.0

https://realcurrencies.wordpress.com/2013/06/21/is-the-national-security-agency-behind-bitcoin/

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/what-do-the-latest-nsa-leaks-mean-for-bitcoin

http://cointelegraph.com/news/113985/are-we-owned-by-nsa-bitcoin-experts-discuss-how-to-evade-hardware-hacking

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bitcoin-suspected-be-nsa-cia-project-1460439

http://www.opednews.com/populum/pagem.php?f=Connecting-the-Dots-betwee-by-David-Spring-Spying-131206-522.html

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=360.0

[no-ice-please]

Interesting comments here https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/09/security_of_the.html

Also note that it was not the NSA that warned people about md5, it was the Iranians who discovered malware containing an md5 exploit. If not for the Iranian discovery and Snowden's revelations we would still be trusting a lot of broken crypto that the NSA hyped as 'secure' http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/10/sha1-crypto-algorithm-could-fall-by-2018/