Zcash Trusted Setup Potentially Compromised
Claims surface that the Zcash trusted setup ceremony was bugged — with phones reportedly recording and broadcasting audio from a secret meeting — raising serious questions about the privacy coin's foundational cryptographic assumptions.
What we know
an account on X surfaces and engages with claims that the Zcash trusted setup ceremony had interference — phones allegedly recording/broadcasting audio from what was meant to be a secret meeting, implying a participant or device was compromised (tweet). Full article linked (tweet). This is framed against a backdrop of a hacker reportedly being traced even after using Zcash, and trader1sz's broader thesis that in crypto, tech fundamentals are secondary to shilling power (tweet). Note: contrast with another account on X's RT of another account on X who clarified Claude's reverse-engineering of elliptic curve parameters was NOT a break of cryptography (tweet).
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