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Hoskinson confirms Vitalik’s AI warning could delay the internet’s quantum defenses
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Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson accused Vitalik Buterin of undermining quantum-resistant cryptography with speculative warnings about AI-driven mathematical breakthroughs.
Key facts
- The US National Institute of Standards and Technology standardized ML-KEM for key encapsulation and ML-DSA for digital signatures in 2024
- He cited historical weaknesses in MD5 and SHA-1 as evidence that hash functions can contain exploitable structures, although those failures do not establish vulnerabilities in modern constructions
- Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson accused Vitalik Buterin of undermining quantum-resistant cryptography with speculative warnings about AI-driven mathematical breakthroughs
- The Ethereum Foundation has funded research into Poseidon's resistance to algebraic attacks, including investigations using Gröbner bases and other cryptanalytic methods
Summary
01 Hoskinson challenged Buterin’s AI warnings, arguing that lattice security parameters already account for decades of known attacks. 02 The Cardano founder warned that abandoning lattice-based systems could prolong reliance on encryption vulnerable to future quantum computers. 03 The dispute concerns future AI risks, spanning Ethereum’s hash-based signatures and proofs and lattice-based encryption tools. In an Oct. 9 post, Hoskinson challenged the Ethereum co-founder's skepticism toward lattice-based cryptography, arguing that decades of security research had already accounted for the technology's known weaknesses.