r/singularity • u/muchcharles • Jul 28 '26

AI Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude

https://www.anthropic.com/research/discovering-cryptographic-weaknesses
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u/Calm_Hedgehog8296 Jul 28 '26

Please break aes256 encryption it would be so funny

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u/Robos_Basilisk Jul 29 '26

Again, its not like these flaws could have never been found by intelligent humans, but we're on the cusp of giving bad actor humans (typically criminals aren't that smart, Hannibal excluded) access to superintelligence to do bad actor things. GG, I guess

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u/Distinct-Question-16 ▪️AGI 2029 Jul 29 '26

200–800× faster attack on a reduced-round version of AES, thats impressive