Bitcoin Core Revises Security Policy for AI-Discoverable Software Flaws

TL;DR Bitcoin Core revised its security policy as LLMs make some vulnerabilities easier to rediscover, creating a faster disclosure path for flaws judged easy to find. Those issues will receive backported fixes across maintained releases, with new versions shipped quickly and security advisories published alongside the patches. Other vulnerabilities keep severity-based disclosure schedules, while critical bugs remain outside the standard framework and model-generated findings still require human validation before technical action. Bitcoin Core revised its security disclosure policy as large language models make vulnerabilities easier to rediscover. In a Bitcoin Development Mailing List update , developer Antoine Poinsot said reports have increased because LLMs can identify bugs or covert fixes. Bitcoin Core will now accelerate patches for vulnerabilities judged easy to discover instead of keeping them under lengthy embargoes.

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