Anthropic says Claude helped uncover weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms
rickasaurus · x · 2026-07-29
Anthropic says Claude helped its researchers uncover weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms.
In the attached write-up, the model was repeatedly guided with careful prompts over three days, generated hundreds of millions of tokens, and eventually arrived at a Möbius-bridge idea that improved the attack. A few days and roughly one billion tokens later, the team had refined the method into the version described in the paper.
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