Bitcoin Died Today & No One Noticed

[Anonymous No.30179092]

>be world famous cryptographer
>retire in 2011 after helping create the RSA foundation
>publish updates ever 2 years on efforts to destroy Discrete Logarithm Problem / RSA
>label each update "work in progress"
>post a final update on March 3, 2021 at age 77 removing "work in progress" from title and adding a single line to the end of the abstract:

"This destroys the RSA crypto system."

[Anonymous No.30179143]

>>30179092
77 years old and gay as hell

[Anonymous No.30179240]

>be world famous cryptographer
>NSA pays me and grad students $60k to introduce weakness into RSA
>It gets sold to Chinese
>They hack defense systems, steal military tech
>Stop making advanced computing parts for world
>Sip brandy and don't think about it

[Anonymous No.30179271]

The security of RSA relies on the practical difficulty of factoring the product of two large prime numbers. This takes exponentially longer as the bitsize increases. This method reduces it to polynomial time so instead of (2^800)/2 brute force operations you can now break RSA 800 bit keys is roughly 7x10^10 operations, or 70 Billion. Given a desktop computer with a decent GPU could do that in a couple hours, it's fair to say RSA encryption is functionally dead.

How this applies to Bitcoin is a bit of a stretch but it's there. Finding P given Q on an elliptic curve shares the same computational complexity as the factoring problem. The DLP is just a special case of the Factoring Problem. So the same lattice based methods they used to destroy RSA will shortly be applied to ECC, and before you know it cypherpunks will be emptying the hotwallets of all the big crypto exchanges.

Bitcoin died today. Or at the very least it was diagnosed with a terminal illness.

[Anonymous No.30179273]

bitcoin uses ecdsa, not rsa

[Anonymous No.30179305]

>>30179092
not so fast, don't think so
https://sweis.medium.com/did-schnorr-destroy-rsa-show-me-the-factors-dcb1bb980ab0

[Anonymous No.30179554]

>>30179092

I would call bullshit.

finding factors still can't be solved by anything, but brute force

cutting the search space with primes is impossible, so no

[Anonymous No.30180113]

>not peer-reviewed
hold your horses

[Anonymous No.30180118]

>>30179554
BTC and every other system based on ECC are in grave danger. These lattice methods are a hop skip and a jump away from being used to unravel DLP problems. It took from 2016 until 2021 for them to crack RSA once the attack vector was understood. It'll take then much less than that to crack ECC. Fortunately for most people, Public keys are not exposed on the blockchain until spent. The people who will be fucked are people operating live hit wallets with exposed public keys (like crypto exchanges). Before long all trading will grind to a halt due to the ridiculous measures they'll need to take to protect their public keys.

BTC needs a DSA algorithm update NOW. Or it's fucking over.

[Anonymous No.30180177]

4096, but that's kicking the can down the field - so it takes 1000 GPUs instead of 1, and it takes 3 months instead of 3 hours... How much further do you want to go? There comes a point where the computational overhead of encrypting and decrypting this data is too much for the SSL off-load mechanism available to datacenter infrastructure... we can't just keep doubling the RSA key size forever... the hardware can't keep up.
>>30179554

> cutting the search space with primes is impossible, so no

He proved he can crack RSA with lattice based methods, reducing them to P some of the time and getting them pretty damn close all of the time. These lattice based methods can be viewed almost like a multidimensional binary sort. Sometimes you just guess wrong and have to try the other chain. So there's an element of chance that keeps it from being purely P.

[Anonymous No.30180245]

>>30179092
Man this can be the china fud type dip that i love. Its safe to go all in if this crashes now

[Anonymous No.30180292]

>>30179305
>>>30179363

[Anonymous No.30181110]

>>30179271
Nice just bought 100k

[Anonymous No.30181151]

>>30180177
>He proved
Again, not yet peer-reviewed.
This is just a bobo thread wearing a big hat and baggy coat.

[Anonymous No.30181226]

>>30179240
>>NSA pays me and grad students $60k to introduce weakness into RSA
It's a fundamental mathematic principle. That's like saying 2+2=4 is a weakness in how calculators work

[Anonymous No.30181351]

This thread is filled with copy pasta from another thread on pol. Shills or bots are literally copy pasting there fear mongering

[Anonymous No.30181415]

>>30181351
Yeah, same one on /pol/ at the moment

[Anonymous No.30181496]

>>30179240
>It gets sold to Chinese
>They hack defense systems, steal military tech
That's not what happened. USA gave monety to Israel, Israel uses that money to buy US military tech, Israel then illegally sells that American millitary tech to China, and goes completey unpunished.

Look it up. China doens't need to hack or steal anything, they can just get it from Israel. Israel runs the show and USA is just a vassal state.

[Anonymous No.30181934]

>>30181351
>>30181415
are they wrong tho

[Anonymous No.30182038]

Don't care. Still buying Cyberpunk 2077

[Anonymous No.30182081]

>>30181934
yes.

[Anonymous No.30182115]

>>30179092
you keep reposting this fuck off nigger

[Anonymous No.30182123]

Convert all your BTC to HBAR now.

You have been warned.

[Anonymous No.30182161]

I always buy more when stupid shit like this gets posted. Did the same with Craig Wright and made gains. Thanks for posting

[Anonymous No.30182223]

uh, bitcoin is dead the moment there's a war between the u.s. and china, and each country isolates its internet from the rest of the world for national security reasons.

the risk of this happening over the next 20 years is not zero, it's actually pretty significant, and therefore bitcoin is not a store of value.

[Anonymous No.30182821]

>>30179271
wtf since when are there people that actually know any computer science on /biz/?

[Anonymous No.30182850]

>>30179271
Questions: can't miners immediately implement this to gain a massive edge before the news becomes more widespread? Should we expect to see a jump in hashrate in the next few days/weeks? What's practically going to happen?

[Anonymous No.30182891]

>>30179092
Bitcoin doesn't use RSA

[Anonymous No.30182907]

>>30179271
sick larp bro

[Anonymous No.30182970]

>>30179271
Pretty sure if RSA is broken, the world will have bigger problems than Bitcoin dying. Entire world economic system would collapse.

[Anonymous No.30183199]

>>30182891

totally irrelevant

by the time bitcoin starts dropping, it will be too late to get out. the big money will take a while to process the information, some may even wait for proof of concept work to undermine bitcoin, but i suspect they'll get burned.

[Anonymous No.30183219]

>>30179092
Isn't this just like when senile old Michael Atiyah proved the Riemann Hypothesis and it was just gibberish, then he died the next day?

[Anonymous No.30183339]

>>30183199
lol

[Anonymous No.30183562]

he looks like costanza

[Anonymous No.30184343]

>>30183562
Close

[Anonymous No.30184478]

>>30184343

[Anonymous No.30185013]

>>30183562
>>30184343
O'brien: That's it! I'm gonna do it!
Satoshi: Do what?
O'brien: Destroy the crypto system! Goodbye Bitcoin.
Satoshi: You can't just destroy the crypto system, it's incredibly secure!
O'brien: That's just what they want you to think. But I've found a way!
Satoshi: Oh, you've found a way? And what is this way you've found?
O'brien: I've been working on it for a long time... here it is!
Satoshi: This says work in progress. There's even spelling mistakes...
O'brien: Oh, I mean this one! See, I've cracked it Satoshi, I've cracked the code. No coming back from this one. Black swans as far as the eye can see.
Satoshi: You do realize Bitcoin uses ecdsa, right?
O'brien: Do I know bitcoin uses ecdsa... of course I do. Did you think I didn't know that... That's why the crypto system dies in a month! One month!

[Anonymous No.30185820]

>>30181351
And 3 threads on /biz/ with this shit right now

[Anonymous No.30185900]

>>30182223
the risk of a rogue asteroid made up of 2x the world's gold supply crashing into earth is non-zero too

[Anonymous No.30185979]

>>30184343

[Anonymous No.30186070]

>>30179092
Smells like bullshit

>>30181934
Yes, short answer for us brainlets is that if Schnorr's new supposed algorithm actually worked, he or someone else doubtlessly in the next 48 hours will have broken some smaller level publicly available decryption challenge and posted the prime factorization to show it can be done quickly enough

>>30185900
But then the price of gold only halves, no?

[Anonymous No.30186220]

>>30179092

So where are the news? Why is there only one post by some autist on a racist frog forum?

[Anonymous No.30186491]

>>30179092
>doesnt give proof of it working
>flaws in equations
>uses other flawed equations
>literally no one in this space is phased by this paper
nice try rajeed

[Anonymous No.30186746]

>>30183199
Top kek

[Anonymous No.30187320]

>>30185900
lets do some quickmaths, fren.

total gold ever mined; 190,000 tons. you say 2x. so we're at 380,000 tons minimum for this asteroid.

average speed of an asteroid impact on earth is 18 kilometers per second.

gold's density is 19.33 grams per cubic centimeter.

380,000 tons is 344730201 kilograms.

given such a mass and density, we can calculate the volume to roughly 17833947284 cubic meters. it follows from this that the diameter of our golden sphere of 2x the total known gold supply is 3240 meters.

the average impact angle is 45 degrees.

this all comes together to form a probable impact event yielding 13257 gigatons, or basically fuck you everyone goodbye.

[Anonymous No.30187395]

>>30179273
same principle applies for elliptic curve

[Anonymous No.30187577]

>>30187320
divide by 1 million, it's actually only 0.013 gigatons noob!

[Anonymous No.30187615]

>>30182850
It doesn’t work like that

[Anonymous No.30187621]

>>30181226
thank god one non-retarded reply, how are you guys throwing your life savings into crypto without even understanding cryptography

[Anonymous No.30187805]

>>30182850

That has always been a thing to monitor, yes. There are 3 or 4 potential technological/mathematical breakthroughs that may be on the horizon that could pay bank by allowing vastly faster hash rates, so you should be damned sure every major power is keeping an eye on it. It is both a bounty and an alarm system.

[Anonymous No.30187850]

>>30179092
>Bitcoin Died Today & No One gave a fuck
fixd
Not in it for the tech. Im in it for the MONIES !

[Anonymous No.30188102]

>>30186491
He's like that priest who was convinces that his "math" calculated when the end of the world was going to be. 2012 came and went and that only man and his "math" now just look ridiculous.