Did Satoshi Get Bitcoin Wrong? Claude's NSA Discovery Sparks Debate
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For 25 years, one suspicion haunted the mathematics protecting much of the internet: had the NSA secretly built a way to crack it? Now, an AI model may have weakened that theory. And Bitcoin’s creator is suddenly part of the argument. On Friday, Anthropic revealed that its Claude AI model solved a mystery that had baffled cryptographers for decades—in less than 30 minutes. What Did Claude Discover About the NSA? The controversy concerned elliptic curves, mathematical rules used to verify digital signatures without revealing private keys. In 2000, US standards body NIST adopted several curves containing starting numbers supplied by the NSA. Nobody explained where those numbers came from. Researchers feared the agency might have deliberately selected them to create a hidden weakness, or backdoor.
First reported by BeInCrypto. This page is a short excerpt; the full text is theirs.
