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Re: I don't believe Quantum Computing will ever threaten Bitcoin
by
ranochigo
on 26/12/2020, 16:36:01 UTC
Today, the main danger for hacking comes from artificial intelligence. And it is no longer theory, it is practice. There are already break-ins based on this technology. Keys and passwords are being compromised again. It was reported this month that more than one billion accounts could be hacked using artificial intelligence. Why? Because there's something to steal...
How do you think AI would affect ECDSA or more specifically public key cryptography? AI (or rather machine learning) does analysis based on certain trends and using passwords/dictionary attacks usually results in the algorithm being fed with big data and finding association and possible passwords based on the targets. If you want to bruteforce using this method, you could find success with leaked database but most likely not with sites that are designed to deter such attempts.

Now, back to the topic. Public key cryptography uses randomness generated from sources to generate the private key. Since the generation methods involves large amount of entropy, if given a public key, how would you use AI to tackle the algorithm and solve for the appropriate private key?