‘Wow, it’s a real discovery’: Claude cracks a 25-year NSA number mystery
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Claude reveals that the enigmatic numbers the NSA released in the 1990s, long rumored to conceal a cryptographic backdoor, actually stem from a simple computer program, confirming that Bitcoin never appeared on the list and that its unresolved quantum‑computing vulnerability remains unchanged, signaling continued scrutiny of digital‑currency security and potential regulatory focus.
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.