SN 1101: ECDSA's Curves Origins - When AI Becomes the Attacker

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An unreleased AI solved a 26-year-old cryptographic secret in less than half an hour, exposing the origins of a widely used standard. Discover what this jaw-dropping breakthrough means for the future of trust and transparency in cybersecurity. • Another record smashing Patch Tuesday. • But again, all those updates were not without consequences. • Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 reports on an agentic attack. • A mass-compromised hardware cryptocurrency wallet attack. • How to create your own known-safe crypto wallet. • Feedback about AI, coding and SpinRite from a listener. • What the reverse-engineering of the ECDSA curves means for security Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1101-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a me