Researcher uses Opus 4.8 to find critical counterfeiting vulnerability in Zcash

7 points by bryantwolf 95 days ago | 1 comment

farfatched 95 days ago |

> The vulnerability could have been exploited to undetectably create an unlimited amount of counterfeit ZEC within Orchard.

Wow. This is pretty damning.

> the vulnerability had evaded years of scrutiny by many of the world’s best cryptographers.

The honest ones at least.

farfatched 95 days ago |

> The vulnerability could have been exploited to undetectably create an unlimited amount of counterfeit ZEC within Orchard.

Wow. This is pretty damning.

> the vulnerability had evaded years of scrutiny by many of the world’s best cryptographers.

The honest ones at least.