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The context is that the program I analyzed is the official WhatsApp installer, unmodified, downloaded from https://www.whatsapp.com/download?lang=es . Which means the WhatsApp supply chain is infected. Or WhatsApp was hacked.
Hello, this is a project that goes beyond Bitcoin’s level of decentralization. In the GitHub repository there is a .zip file. Once you extract it, there will be a folder. Inside that folder, you need to go to the distil directory. There you will find an .exe file — this is the program you need to run. It is 100% decentralized and does not have a single seed server.
Project Omega Implementation Test: https://osf.io/zft2n/files/fsz2m
The 'both were just signed' argument fails to address the structural anomalies. If Microsoft signed both, why does the malware use RSA-2048 while the official binary uses RSA-4096?. Furthermore, the malware carries a compilation timestamp from the year 2097, an APT technique to evade security filters. We aren't just seeing 'two signed files'; we are seeing a malicious binary (verified with sandbox escape and session theft) that shouldn't exist in Microsoft's signing pipeline, yet it carries a valid signature and was delivered via a zero-click attack from an official CDN. This points directly to a compromise of the trust infrastructure (Key compromise, CA breach, or verification bypass), not a routine signing event
Based on several analyses I've conducted—specifically on tria.ge, where it scored an 8/10 threat level for malware behavior—the most disturbing part is that the Microsoft digital signature remains valid. We are looking at a full cryptographic bypass.
To demonstrate that digital signatures are no longer valid
Hey Hacker News,
I'm currently running a script to exploit the Debian OpenSSL vulnerability (CVE-2008-0166) to potentially uncover Satoshi Nakamoto's private key. This vulnerability significantly reduces the search space for private keys, making it feasible to brute-force the key if Satoshi used a vulnerable version of OpenSSL on a Debian-based system.
Background: CVE-2008-0166 affected Debian and Ubuntu systems by using a predictable seed for the random number generator, reducing the entropy of key generation.
My Approach: My Python script iterates over all possible PIDs (1-65,536), simulating key generation on a vulnerable Debian system. For each PID, it generates potential private keys and checks if any match Satoshi's public address.
Code: Check out the complete code and Jupyter notebook implementation on my GitHub: https://github.com/POlLLOGAMER/Project_Satoshi_Nakamoto_Priv...
Execution Time: Estimating around 1.82 hours to complete on a modern CPU.
Conclusion: If Satoshi used a vulnerable OpenSSL version, this exploit should find his private key. Stay tuned for updates!
Feel free to check out the code or contribute. Let's see if we can solve this crypto mystery!
Hello HN,
We are sharing a hybrid SAT solver focused on practical efficiency (O(log n) + CDCL).
Results from the scale test:
Instance: hash 001344c9b3cb1626af1c7c35155cf26a (SAT Competence). Size: 4,751,686 Clauses and 1,313,245 Variables. Result: UNSAT Total time: 132.68 seconds (2 minutes, 12 seconds).
The Quaternion Dynamics phase (O(log n)) enabled a speed increase of over 50x in variables, keeping the total time low. Proving UNSAT in this time for an instance of this magnitude is proof of the method's efficiency.
Full log (Spanish Original): ============================================================ SAT SOLVER - DINAMICA POLINOMIAL DE QUATERNIONES O(log n) + PySAT = SAT/UNSAT CORRECTO ============================================================
Sube tu archivo .cnf o .cnf.xz:
• 001344c9b3cb1626af1c7c35155cf26a-bench_13439.smt2.cnf.xz(n/a) - 11905108 bytes, last modified: 7/12/2025 - 100% done Saving 001344c9b3cb1626af1c7c35155cf26a-bench_13439.smt2.cnf.xz to 001344c9b3cb1626af1c7c35155cf26a-bench_13439.smt2.cnf (1).xz
Archivo: 001344c9b3cb1626af1c7c35155cf26a-bench_13439.smt2.cnf (1).xz Tamano: 11905108 bytes Descomprimiendo .xz... Descomprimido: 108797713 caracteres
Parseando CNF... Variables: 1313245 Clausulas: 4751686
-------------------------------------------------- Ejecutando algoritmo híbrido... -------------------------------------------------- [1] Aproximación cuaterniónica O(log n)... Heurístico: 4102660/4751686 (86.34%) [2] Decisión exacta con PySAT (CDCL)...
================================================== RESULTADO: UNSAT Tiempo total: 132.6845 segundos Complejidad O(log n): 15.618034 Clausulas satisfechas (heuristico): 4102660/4751686 ==================================================
Archivo guardado: 001344c9b3cb1626af1c7c35155cf26a-bench_13439.smt2.cnf (1)_DIMACS_resultado.txt
Preview: c ================================================== c SAT Solver - Dinamica Polinomial de Quaterniones c O(log n) + CDCL (PySAT) = SAT/UNSAT CORRECTO c ================================================== c Archivo: 001344c9b3cb1626af1c7c35155cf26a-bench_13439.smt2.cnf (1).xz c Variables: 1313245 c Clausulas: 4751686 c Complejidad O(log n): 15.618034 c Clausulas satisfechas (heuristico): 4102660/4751686 (86.34%) c s UNSAT ...
The solver is available for testing with any known SAT Competence instance.
Link to Solver Files (OSF): https://osf.io/d5kg4/files/mpxgu Good luck with your Pandora's box!
I introduce the Law of Entropic Regression, a formal framework explaining why deterministic learning systems face inherent limits in convergence due to the asymmetric expansion of the error-space entropy.
To overcome this limitation, I define the Machine Unlearning operator and integrate it with conventional learning within a Machine Meta-Learning framework, achieving true asymptotic convergence.
The paper is openly available at OSF: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/UXTJ9
Additionally, I provide a Jupyter Notebook demonstrating the Meta-Learning simulation using a 2D "moons" dataset. The simulation results confirm the framework's effectiveness:
Simulation finished Final correct ratio: 99.30% Final error ratio : 0.70% Final entropy : 0.0602 bits
These results illustrate how the combined learning and unlearning operators drive the global error toward zero while maintaining bounded informational entropy.
I welcome feedback from the community on potential applications and improvements.
Here’s the paper and code: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/74DXZ
Here’s the code and how to implement it: https://github.com/POlLLOGAMER/RfC-Reinforcement-for-Creativ...
RfC trains agents to generate genuinely creative and valid outputs across any rule-based domain, from formal math to molecular design.
Here’s the paper and code: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/74DXZ
Here’s the code and how to implement it: https://github.com/POlLLOGAMER/RfC-Reinforcement-for-Creativ...
RfC (Reinforcement for Creativity) is a universal, modular AI framework that trains agents to produce genuinely creative and valid outputs across any rule-based environment, from mathematics, programming to games, molecular design, and anything you imagine!
A public technical blueprint describing the Habitual Network (HN), an architecture for explicit habit-based learning and reasoning in AI. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/S9YEX
The Partition Problem: given integers, decide if they can be split into two subsets of equal sum.
Example: {10, 10, 100, 100} → solvable since {10, 100} and {10, 100} balance.
Now extend this to duplicated powers-of-ten: {10, 100, …, 10^n, 10^n} with n = 10000.
For the larger instance with duplicated powers-of-ten up to 10^10000 (size m = 20000), the algorithm completed in n = 10000 greedy moves. Runtime remained remarkably efficient, completing in ≈ 2.87 seconds total in Colab Basic CPU.
Implications: P = NP. RSA and modern cryptography collapse.
Pandora’s box is open.
Partition is NP-complete. I built a deterministic polynomial algorithm: a variant of my O(n²) solver, now running in O(log n) time and O(1) extra space. More elements → runtime grows slower.
Implications: breaks RSA, ECC, AES, SHA-256, blockchain security and beyond.
Preprint proposing an analytical approximation to Euler’s totient function φ(n) when n = pq with large primes. While not exact, the method (the “Kaoru Method”) shows decreasing relative error as n grows and p, q are more balanced. Given the central role of φ(n) in RSA, the question is whether such approximations could have cryptographic consequences or remain purely of number-theoretic interest.
I just released a short paper titled “AI Emotions: A System Prompt for Artificial Emotions”. It presents a compact system-prompt for LLMs that induces an artificial emotional processing loop, affecting internal reasoning rather than just surface-level style.
The paper includes the exact prompt, a test input, and model outputs with and without the prompt, along with a brief analysis. Experiments were conducted using the Gemini 2.5 Pro model.
Full PDF (CC-BY 4.0): https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/EUJK9
DIAC ∞ 2 is an novel asymmetric encryption system that I designed specifically to be resistant even if P=NP, and it is a post-quantum cipher. Here is the OSF link, where the repository contains the PDF explaining DIAC ∞ 2 and its demo code in Colab: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/YSMK9
I’ve been working on an alternative architecture to Transformers called GAIA. It trains in seconds on CPU and is based on hashing with π-driven partition regularization. Paper and implementation are available here: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/2E3C4