Yehuda Lindell

De hecho, iría más lejos y diría que si la inteligencia artificial llegase algún día a romper la criptografía general como la usamos hoy, los bitcoiners seríamos el tuerto en el país de los ciegos.

Como explica Yehuda Lindell, jefe de criptografía de Coinbase y coautor de uno de los manuales de referencia de criptografía, si se rompe esta criptografía, no solo será para Bitcoin.

Si lo logras, se podrían falsificar los certificados que garantizan que una web es la de tu banco y suplantarla con una que te montes tú en una tarde.

Se podrían también firmar aplicaciones bancarias o actualizaciones de sistema operativo falsas y colarlas en cualquier móvil u ordenador.

And so, you know, obviously, I would say you need to question Justin Drake's incentives, prompting this sort of sensationalist post on X.

But then there was also a rebuttal from Yehuda Lindell, who's the head of cryptography at Coinbase, explaining why everything he was saying was basically wrong.

There's no evidence that hardness assumptions, which have held for decades, are failing.

AI proving difficult theorems says nothing about whether problems being or problems believed to be inherently hard can be solved.

His biggest gripe was that many were farming the topic for engagement without pointing to the specific open math problems.

Yehuda Lindell is, per Hamilton, Coinbase's head of cryptography.

On October 8th, he said, there is no evidence whatsoever pointing to a break of decades-old hardness assumptions.

Here is our view.

We have a lot to talk about.

Justin Drake, um, actually Yehuda Lindell from Coinbase had a really good thread too.

Um, before we do, a couple of quick things, Castle Island content.

Uh, I sat down with Esther Wong, the co-founder of Cashi, talking about the stablecoin landscape.

That would be terrible if so.

I think it's als- also worth pointing out that there are some very prominent people on the other side of this argument, and so I think this Justin Drake, you know, post got a, just a ton of attention, and obviously it's a pretty scary message.

Um, Yehuda Lindell, who's one of the foremost cryptographers in the entire planet, um, he's over at Coinbase now as the head of cryptography.

Uh, he had a tweet storm basically saying this, this was a bad take and that there's no evidence whatsoever pointing to break of decades-old, uh, hardness assumptions like elliptic curve cryptography.