SHA 2 made by NSA

[btctozar@gmail.com]

What a coincident ...
SHA-2 is a set of cryptographic hash functions (SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512) designed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and published in 2001 by the NIST as a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard.

[c47]

Are you paranoid??? ;-)

[Jerry from Rochester]

Hey goat, have you heard about the sheep marketplace.  The website doesn't work yet but if you like goats maybe you like sheep. 

[AzureEngineer]

If you're paranoid, just use Scrypt coins.

[El Cabron]

If you're paranoid, just use Scrypt coins.

Litecoin for the win!

[btctozar@gmail.com]

No I am not paranoid I just need to be whitelisted LOL
but there could be a possibbility the NSA is behind the whole Bitcoin story. Why is the bitcoin using the SHA2 and not the much saver SHA3 which was not designed by the NSA?

[btctozar@gmail.com]

What the SHA3 or the whitlisting ?
 

[OkElmo]

[...]and not the much saver SHA3 which was not designed by the NSA?

Check the wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-3
It hasn't been standardized yet, and it wasn't created to improve upon SHA-2.

Also, what makes you think the NSA is more likely to hide a malicious and clever backdoor in the algorithm than any other group or organization? More importantly: I can understand the importance of decrypting communications, but what advantage could a group like the NSA gain from creating hash functions vulnerable to collision?

[AzureEngineer]

I am the NSA. I am in your interwebs, stealing your Bitcoins.