‘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.

Reported so far by one publisher.

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CD CoinDesk ‘Wow, it’s a real discovery’: Claude cracks a 25-year NSA number mystery · Shaurya Malwa 2:39 AM

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