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Nearly every blockchain proves who owns what with ECDSA, the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm.

Alex Pruden and Conor Deegan of Project Eleven join Laura Shin to walk through how it works, why its hidden “trapdoor” structure is what people worry AI could find, why Conor says AI has already broken two post-quantum candidates, Hawk and McEliece, and why Matthew Green’s warning about encryption matters most for privacy protocols.

Host:

    • Laura Shin – Founder, CEO and Host of Unchained

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This clip is from a longer conversation on whether AI could break the cryptography securing blockchains before quantum computers do. Full episode here.

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