Anthropic engineer cracks RSA-896 with Claude AI: is Bitcoin at risk?
- —RSA-896 was cracked in 10 days instead of months of expert work
- —The previous 862-bit record stood for only 16 days
- —Bitcoin uses ECC and SHA-256, not RSA, so there is no direct threat
- —Reused addresses expose public keys and carry higher risk
Why it matters: AI is accelerating cryptanalysis, pressuring crypto projects to adopt post-quantum standards before a real threat emerges.
Source: Siam Blockchain