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‘Wow, it’s a real discovery’: Claude cracks a 25-year NSA number mystery

Numbers the spy agency handed over in the 1990s, long suspected of hiding a backdoor, turn out to have come from a basic computer program. Bitcoin was never on that list, and its quantum problem hasn’t gone anywhere.

‘Wow, it’s a real discovery’: Claude cracks a 25-year NSA number mystery
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Researchers found that numbers the NSA released in the 1990s, long suspected of containing a cryptographic backdoor, actually came from a basic computer program. The story is a cryptography curiosity with no direct bearing on Bitcoin, which was never part of that list. The excerpt notes Bitcoin's quantum-computing vulnerability remains unresolved, but no new development or timeline is disclosed, so there is no actionable trading catalyst.

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