Vitalik: AI-accelerated math could seriously break lattice crypto within two years
StefanoGogioso · x · 2026-10-08
Vitalik Buterin argues cryptography must take AI-accelerated math seriously, not just quantum threats. Key points: don't panic-move funds today, but the "fresh address" habit matters as ECDSA may fall faster than expected; the core new risk is lattice-based crypto — ML-DSA and FHE — whose concrete security could take serious hits within two years; the analogy is factoring, where decades of human algorithmic optimization (number field sieve) may be compressed by AI.
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