AI cipher-breaking isn't surprising, researcher says — the multidisciplinary reasoning is the real story
2C_ornot2C · x · 2026-10-01
Researcher loferro pushes back on hype around AI breaking ciphers: the compute needed to brute-force those cyphers is fully accessible, so it's not surprising. What's genuinely interesting, he argues, is the task's multidisciplinary nature — diverse information from multiple sources must be rigorously assembled to formulate and solve the problem.
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