Experts debate whether SI that solves old math problems could undermine Bitcoin and Ethereum cryptography
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If SI learns to find weak spots in the math of ciphers, a faster move to new protections will be needed, but for now this is only a conjecture.
According to Fortune, after OpenAI published hundreds of solutions to long-standing math problems, security and finance specialists are discussing the risk that SI could find unknown weaknesses in cryptography, above all in the ECDSA signature algorithm that Bitcoin and Ethereum rely on. A Johns Hopkins expert, the outlet says, allowed that "we might lose public key cryptography"; Haseeb Qureshi puts the chance that "everything is totally fine" at 95%. One researcher suggested moving funds to new addresses; others consider this premature.
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