4000 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd OP 21 Oct 2022 \ parent \ on: I'm Peter Todd, cryptochronomancer/web-π dev, AMA bitcoin
SHA-1 doesn't have an NSA backdoor. It's just insecure.
There's a good chance SHA-256 remains secure for the rest of our lives. We have gotten better at cryptography, and SHA-256 has lasted much longer than SHA-1 did.