Claude Opus Found a Four-Year-Old Hole in Zcash’s Privacy Layer. Nobody Knows If Someone Already Used It. (opens in new tab)  🔑Cryptography

Claude Opus 4.8 helped uncover a four-year-old critical flaw in Zcash that could have enabled undetectable creation of counterfeit coins. On May 29, the security researcher Taylor Hornby found a critical vulnerability in Zcash Orchard privacy pool using Claude Opus 4.8. The Zcash team hired Hornby specifically to look for this kind of issue. He […]