The three cryptographic functions used by bitcoin are:
ECDSA (for digital signatures)
RIPEMD-160 (as one of the hashing algorithms used to create a bitcoin address from a public key)
SHA-256 (for all other hashing algorithms used in bitcoin)
If you are trying to understand the cryptography, those are the algorithms you'll want to learn about.
Topic: Resources to get more technical (Read 403 times)
I feel pretty confident in my theoretical and practical Bitcoin knowledge, but I have never been too confidant on the actual cryptography or technical aspects. I realize that these are not beginner topics, but can anyone point me in a direction to increase my knowledge? Either online or off, or even within the forum? I guess I have slightly above average understanding of math and computers, but that is probably not saying much.
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