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What are the advantages of using truncated HASH256 over CRC32?

adminMarch 4, 2024
What are the advantages of using truncated HASH256 over CRC32?

Bitcoin’s checksum is the first 4 bytes of data HASH256. HASH256 is twice as long as SHA256, so SHA256(SHA256(data)). What is the advantage over using a dedicated checksum function like CRC32?

adminMarch 4, 2024

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