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Latest Cryptography stories
- Google DeepMind Repeats RSA-1024 Benchmark With 391 CPU Core-Years
The work used the same RSA-1024 instance and algorithm as an earlier computation, though it ran on different hardware. The task did not recover a private key.
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- XRP Ledger Foundation Plans 2027 Study for Quantum-Resistant Accounts
Developers are resolving key-generation differences, and the proposal would use NIST-approved ML-DSA-44 signing keys.
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- Midnight Completes Ledger 9 Upgrade for Private Cross-Chain Deposits
The Nov. 6, 2026, release adds contract-to-contract calls limited to unshielded data, plus native Keccak-256 hashing and ECDSA signature verification.
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- Bitcoin Core Developer Outlines Three Quantum-Theft Deterrents
Bitcoin Core developer Cory Fields’ concepts include cryptographic proofs, burning vulnerable Bitcoin (BTC) and third-party competition for attackers’ collateral.
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- Google DeepMind Says AI Agents Found Two Flaws in 1,024-Bit RSA
The company said human-guided models identified the weaknesses; the two vulnerabilities do not affect modern 2,048-bit RSA systems.
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- Speaker Calls Quantum Threat Existential for Bitcoin
The speaker said developers are discussing whether quantum security should take priority over scaling and other work.
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- AI Could Aid Attacks on Cryptography Before Quantum Computers Arrive
Zcash co-founder and StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson called for systems to migrate to hash-based cryptography. He identified no specific attack, vulnerable wallet or affected network.
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- Unnamed Cryptographer Warns Bitcoin (BTC) Could Be Overtaken
The warning also said people would not trust Bitcoin if all Bitcoin keys were broken.
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- StarkWare Says Anthropic Uses Its Founders’ Cryptography for AI Checks
Starknet amplified a StarkWare message describing the cryptography’s use in validating which AI model provided specific answers.
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- Anthropic Uses StarkWare Cryptography to Identify Models Behind Answers
StarkWare says the method connects a specific answer to the AI model that generated it. Starknet amplified the announcement on X.
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- Aztec Announces Tierra Alpha V6 With Ethereum-to-Aztec Messages in Up to 12 Seconds
The upgrade addresses a serious V5 vulnerability, adds AI-based security testing and formal verification, and brings client-side proof generation to about one second.
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- Vitalik Buterin Says AI Could Speed Search for Cryptographic Attacks
Buterin said AI could compress more than 50 years of mathematical research into five. Coinbase head of cryptography Yehuda Lindell said the field has no consensus that elliptic-curve cryptography is likely to be broken.
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- Coinbase CEO Sees Quantum as a Greater Long-Term Crypto Risk Than AI
Armstrong said Coinbase has begun work on post-quantum custody upgrades, while Bitcoin (BTC) still has no selected upgrade path or migration date.
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- Open Math Challenge Seeks Tighter Bounds for Smaller STARK Proofs
Among three targets are replacing a known quadratic bound with a linear one and extending a quadratic bound to a wider range. Proofs require independent review in Lean.
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- Blockstream Director Says a 99% Better Attack Would Not Affect Bitcoin (BTC) Security
The director also said there were no faster attacks against “our elliptic curves” and that concrete attacks would require “something much better.”
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- Coinbase Outlines Bitcoin Quantum Options, Leaves Legacy Funds Unresolved
The company lists BIP-360 and P2TRv2 as address options and names four signature schemes for technical evaluation.
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- Blockchain’s AI-era value lies in security over computing, with quantum money a longer-term prospect
Tarun Chitra argues that blockchain’s AI-era role centers on securing identities, assets and verifiable records. He also discusses on-demand rollups and quantum money as a distant possibility.
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- Quantum Warning Raises Questions About Bitcoin’s Ownership Model
The warning questions whether Bitcoin’s protocol can continue to prove ownership if signing authority and ownership diverge.
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- Bitcoin's Quantum-Resistance Proposals Remain in Draft Stage
BIP-360 would remove Taproot's key-path spend, while SHRINCS's draft lists large signatures and unfinished security work.
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- StarkWare AI Lead Abdel Bakhta Leaves to Focus on AI Safety
Bakhta said mathematics and cryptography will matter in AI safety. StarkWare co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson said ZK STARK and Starknet may also contribute.
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- Palihapitiya Outlines Hypothetical AI Attack on Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin Wallet
He argued that leaks exposing crypto ownership could create security risks and limit Bitcoin’s pool of potential buyers.
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- Coinbase Outlines Bitcoin Quantum Plan, Flags 6.9 Million BTC
Options include a new output type and a hybrid spending design. Coinbase has not selected a signature system or set a migration timetable.
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- Claude Reconstructs P-256’s Public Seed From a 1997 Generator Run
The 160-bit seed matched candidate 1,842 in a timestamp-initialized `lrand48` run; why that candidate was selected and how the curve’s base point was generated remain unresolved.
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- AI May Speed Crypto Security Reviews as OpenAI Math Results Show No New Weakness
A model’s monthlong test would strengthen confidence only if it could not break the assumption under review.
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- Claude Traces Five NIST Curve Seeds to a Timestamped 1990s Generator
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) prime-curve seeds matched `lrand48` output, while several base-point origins and the B-163 seed remain unresolved.
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- Claude Mythos 5 Helps Cut Quantum Circuit Gates by About 17-Fold
The elliptic-curve point-addition design used 12% more qubits; across a broader set of tasks, seven of eight designs reduced both gate and qubit counts.
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- Coinbase Calls for Flexible Bitcoin Quantum-Security Upgrades
The exchange wants future signature options to work with large custodians’ signing systems and says the network’s transition could take years.
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- Coinbase Urges Early Bitcoin Planning as Post-Quantum Shift May Take Years
The company is exploring flexible output designs and a phased transition supporting both classical and post-quantum signatures.
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- ARK Digital-Assets Research Director Says 70% of Adviser Questions Concern Quantum Risk
Lorenzo Valente said ARK Invest expects quantum computers to threaten current blockchain signatures within 10 to 20 years but is more confident Bitcoin will upgrade in time.
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- Starknet Says Its Network Can Upgrade Cryptography Without Address Changes
The network said it compared 10 blockchains and found most lack a quantum-security plan beyond moving funds to new addresses.
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- AI Models Estimate Bitcoin’s 20-Year Cryptographic-Break Risk at 34%-76%
Four prompt-generated scenarios produced sharply different estimates, while the timing of quantum computers capable of threatening current encryption remains unknown.
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- Adam Back Criticizes Ethereum’s Account Model Amid AI Cryptography Warnings
The Blockstream CEO defended Bitcoin’s UTXO design as Ethereum researchers discussed potential AI threats to blockchain cryptography and a draft transaction proposal.
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- Stanford Cryptographer Dan Boneh Examines AI’s Impact on Cryptography
The discussion explored how AI could challenge existing cryptographic methods and affect security protocols and cryptographic standards.
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- Ledger CTO Says AI Has Not Shown It Can Break Bitcoin’s ECDSA
Charles Guillemet said mathematical advances do not demonstrate an imminent attack, while researchers urged measured preparation for possible cryptographic risks.
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- Dragonfly Partner Says Ethereum ‘Bunker Mode’ Won’t Fully Solve AI Wallet Risk
Haseeb Qureshi said moving assets to new addresses would not prevent attacks on other wallets from causing losses if compromised tokens were sold heavily.
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- Buterin Warns AI Could Weaken Lattice-Based Cryptography
Ethereum’s protocol plan targets full post-quantum resistance across execution, consensus and data layers by December 2029, while users are advised against rushed wallet migrations.
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- Sean Bowe Says Justin Drake’s Quantum Warnings Risk Crypto Trust
The Tachyon co-founder said experts should remain calm and help users navigate uncertainty while the industry assesses future cryptographic threats.
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- Jameson Lopp Says AI-Assisted Flaw Discovery Outpaces Bitcoin Crypto Risk
The Bitcoin developer says attackers are more likely to exploit wallet and software weaknesses than break Bitcoin’s underlying cryptography.
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- BitGo Adds Bitcoin Wallet Controls for Future Quantum Risks
The tools include a Quantum Risk Score and workflows to move funds from exposed addresses as the crypto industry prepares for longer-term threats to digital signatures.
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- Ethereum Researcher Urges Crypto Industry to Prepare for AI Attack Risk
Justin Drake said a worst-case break of transaction-signing cryptography could come in months, while Vitalik Buterin cautioned against rushed wallet migrations.
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