The algorithm is known as HAWK. It’s a digital signature scheme designed to withstand future attacks from quantum computers.

Claude Mythos Preview discovered new attacks in testing against weakened cryptographic algorithms, which protect online ...

AI company Anthropic has announced that its unreleased model, Claude Mythos Preview, has discovered previously unknown mathematical weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms that human researchers had ...

Anthropic’s locked model Claude Mythos found a new attack on a post-quantum signature scheme headed for U.S. federal ...

Anthropic’s Mythos AI model has helped discover two new cryptanalytic attacks, one against the NIST post-quantum digital ...

Anthropic says Claude Mythos found faster ways to attack cryptographic algorithms, highlighting how AI could uncover hidden ...

Claude Mythos cut HAWK's key strength in half in 60 hours and improved attacks on reduced AES by 200-800x. No production systems are affected. Each discovery cost ~$100K.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In our increasingly digital lives, security depends on cryptography. Send a private message or pay a bill online, and you’re relying on ...

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A formula used to turn ordinary data, or "plaintext," into a secret coded message known as "ciphertext." The ciphertext can reside in storage or travel over unsecure networks without its contents ...

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI discovered a novel way to crack a weakened version of AES encryption, raising fresh concerns ...

BitLocker may have vulnerabilities, but I’m still recommending it (and its Device Encryption derivative) to users.