🚨 Zcash Hits a Major Vulnerability: Unlimited Minting of ZEC and No Detection
@zooko revealed that security researcher Taylor Hornby leveraged the Anthropic AI model Opus 4.8 to uncover a serious spoofing flaw in the Zcash Orchard pool circuit.
Vulnerability Core:
• Insufficient elliptic curve multiplication constraints
• Can be exploited to mint ZEC out of thin air without detection
• Lurking since activation in May 2022 for nearly 4 years
Fix Status:
✅ Zcash dev lab completed an emergency patch on June 1
⚠️ However, due to Orchard's privacy features, there's no cryptographic way to prove whether it was exploited before the fix
Thoughts:
The "non-auditability" of privacy coins becomes a double-edged sword at this moment—while it protects user privacy, it also allows potential attacks to go untraceable. This is the structural dilemma of privacy tech pathways.
#Zcash #ZEC #Privacy #Security
@zooko revealed that security researcher Taylor Hornby leveraged the Anthropic AI model Opus 4.8 to uncover a serious spoofing flaw in the Zcash Orchard pool circuit.
Vulnerability Core:
• Insufficient elliptic curve multiplication constraints
• Can be exploited to mint ZEC out of thin air without detection
• Lurking since activation in May 2022 for nearly 4 years
Fix Status:
✅ Zcash dev lab completed an emergency patch on June 1
⚠️ However, due to Orchard's privacy features, there's no cryptographic way to prove whether it was exploited before the fix
Thoughts:
The "non-auditability" of privacy coins becomes a double-edged sword at this moment—while it protects user privacy, it also allows potential attacks to go untraceable. This is the structural dilemma of privacy tech pathways.
#Zcash #ZEC #Privacy #Security