Cryptography in the Age of AI: Rejecting the Stack, Securing the Protocol
StefanoGogioso · x · 2026-08-18
The post argues that in an age of AI-supercharged adversaries, the foundational assumptions of cryptography are crumbling. The practical security paradigm of "no one has broken this yet" is failing under novel attacks. While software can be formally verified and hardware certified, the complexity of physical artifacts has surpassed our ability to scrutinize them.
The proposed solution is a radical paradigm shift: do not defend the entire stack or describe the devices. Instead, push security to the ultimate boundary—the interface that actually defines what a protocol does.
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