Vitalik warns of risks, but advises against rushing to move your coins
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik wrote on October 7 that AI is solving math problems so quickly that the practical security of lattice-based cryptography (such as ML-DSA and fully homomorphic encryption) could be significantly undermined over the next two years. The ECDSA signatures commonly used by Bitcoin and Ethereum wallets could also become vulnerable sooner than people expect. His reasoning is straightforward: if AI can do 50 years’ worth of human math in two years, current parameters won’t be enough, and he recommends increasing the key sizes used for long-term encryption by a factor of 10.
But here’s the twist: he doesn’t recommend that people panic and move their coins to new wallets. His reason is practical: he’s lost more money through migration mistakes than he has to all hacks combined. There’s only one easy precaution to take: keep your funds in an address that has never sent a transaction. That way, the public key hasn’t been exposed, reducing the attack surface.
This is a probability assessment, not a claim that anything has already been broken. Ethereum’s roadmap has already been moving toward hash-based signatures this year.
I’ll keep holding my spot assets. I’m not going to mess with my wallet over one warning; I’ll wait for solid proof of a break before making a move.
#Vitalik警告AI或将加速削弱密码学安全 $BTC
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik wrote on October 7 that AI is solving math problems so quickly that the practical security of lattice-based cryptography (such as ML-DSA and fully homomorphic encryption) could be significantly undermined over the next two years. The ECDSA signatures commonly used by Bitcoin and Ethereum wallets could also become vulnerable sooner than people expect. His reasoning is straightforward: if AI can do 50 years’ worth of human math in two years, current parameters won’t be enough, and he recommends increasing the key sizes used for long-term encryption by a factor of 10.
But here’s the twist: he doesn’t recommend that people panic and move their coins to new wallets. His reason is practical: he’s lost more money through migration mistakes than he has to all hacks combined. There’s only one easy precaution to take: keep your funds in an address that has never sent a transaction. That way, the public key hasn’t been exposed, reducing the attack surface.
This is a probability assessment, not a claim that anything has already been broken. Ethereum’s roadmap has already been moving toward hash-based signatures this year.
I’ll keep holding my spot assets. I’m not going to mess with my wallet over one warning; I’ll wait for solid proof of a break before making a move.
#Vitalik警告AI或将加速削弱密码学安全 $BTC