How quickly will AI be able to break encryption?
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I’m not sure if folks are talking about that and if anyone has any resources about that topic I’d love to see it. Thank you in advance.
It's not necessarily about AI doing this. The discussion is more about what computing power is going after which keys. Quantum computing will be able to break current keys, but updating keys and raising the bar will keep you safe. Quantum computing is extremely expensive, so wallets that have no owners (with lost keys) that won't be updated and also have enough funds in them could potentially become a target.
And there are also documented instances of NHI / UAP breaking military level encryption. If these techs are already in the hands of military contractors as recent disclosures might imply… watch out 😬
It can not break encryption, to break encryption you need certain computational complexity that can not be reduce by a smarter algorithm. For instance you can not use AI to mine faster.
AI is really about predicting a response based on a large data set.
You can't predict the source data based on the hash of it. The only way to figure out the source data is to brute force the input until the desired hash is found.
It's uneconomical & impractical to do this because of the required computations involved. That's why advances in processing is the threat to encryption and not AI.
What ai could do is better predict the source data to then brute force. It's why randomness in your bitcoin seed phrase selection is so important.
Thank you for this response. Helpful.
It depends on what you're trying to do...
If you'd like to dox someone on Nostr with AI, it'll be pretty simple...you won't get their nsec, but you'll be able to identify any given person.
There's enough personal information in posts to adequately dox any of us (i.e. Nostr will only be "private" until AI starts looking at the data). The more posts you've made, the easier it'll be.
If (however) you want to get a set of private keys, that's really not something AI can do (or help with). Just math (or maths for @Laeserin)