Claude Traces Long-Mysterious NSA Numbers to a Basic Program
Edited by Steinar Vigdel Kolnes, Editor, Oslo
Claude has traced NSA-supplied numbers to a simple computer program, addressing a decades-old mystery without changing Bitcoin’s quantum-computing risks.
Claude has traced the origin of numbers supplied by the U.S. National Security Agency in the 1990s to a basic computer program, according to CoinDesk. The finding addresses a mystery that had persisted for roughly 25 years.
The numbers had long drawn suspicion that they concealed a backdoor. Identifying how they were generated provides a new explanation for their origins, though that finding alone should not be read as a broader security guarantee.
Bitcoin was not among the systems implicated by the disputed numbers. The discovery also does not resolve the separate risks that quantum computing could pose to Bitcoin’s cryptography.
Source: CoinDesk
