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Another Historic Cipher Falls to AI

This one is from 1809, written by Napoleon’s nephew.

Gossip on Cryptography: Part 3

In this blog, we will continue our discussion from the previous blog, Parts 1 and 2. If you have not read it, please read it once. So far, we have discussed Caesar cipher, Vigenere...

Gossips on Cryptography: Part 4

In this blog, we will continue our discussion from the previous parts. If you have not read them, please read them first. Parts 1 & 2 – Caesar Cipher, Vigenere Cipher, Symmet...

Artificial intelligence cracks centuries-old ciphers

Claude Traces NIST Cryptography Seeds To An Old Random-Number Generator

An unusual piece of cryptography history has gained an answer. Anthropic says Claude reconstructed how the original seed values behind several widely used NIST elliptic curves were...

Claude Fable Solves a Historical Cipher

Claude Fable 5.1 solved a 370-year-old cipher in forty-four minutes. This tracks with what I wrote about AIs doing mathematics: It’s good at things that involve lots of searching a...

Words, words, words...

Problem 8. «Crypto room» Read the words of one of the greatest cryptographers of our time. This is one of a set of problems from NSU crypto, and I have no idea what could be encr...

On the NSA’s Supercomputer from the 1960s

Really interesting story about Harvest, a specialized code breaking computer built in the 1960s by IBM for the NSA.

Can an attacker cheat the clock? Testing GrahamBell’s cryptographic core

Milestone 2: real signatures, real hashes, and one weakness we found in our own design.Continue reading on Medium »

What’s the tech behind the record-breaking RSA-260 crack?

A researcher’s social media post that revealed how to break part of a popular encryption protocol has gone viral. But did he really do it with just “good old paper and pencil”?

Claude AI Cracks the NSA’s 25-Year Cryptography Seed Mystery

For 25 years, cryptographers suspected the NSA’s mysterious encryption seeds might conceal a backdoor. Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence (AI) cracked the puzzle in under 3...

Anthropic’s Claude AI Uncovers Origins of NSA-Provided Cryptographic Keys After 25 Years

Anthropic says an internal Claude research model reconstructed how the National Security Agency generated seeds for five NIST elliptic curves in under 30 minutes, addressing a cryp...

Cryptography Rarely Fails Because of the Math

Cryptography rarely fails at the math - it fails at deployment. Why post-quantum migration and AI-scale risk make open-source stewardship a core control.

Vitalik Buterin says public-key cryptography may need one or two more upgrades

The potential need for cryptographic upgrades highlights the ongoing challenge of securing digital communications against evolving AI threats. The post Vitalik Buterin says public-...

An AI cracked a 373-year-old cipher by noticing the key was hiding in the book itself

In 1653, Sir Thomas Urquhart, a Scottish writer and translator, published a book called Logopandecteision, an introduction to an artificial language that he had created. The end of...

This Cipher That Napoleon Used Went Unsolved For 217 Years. ChatGPT Just Solved It In Six Hours

While the first of the message's 24 lines is in French, the rest is in a mix of letters, numbers, and made-up symbols so baffling that no cryptographer had come close to decoding i...

Measuring Human Cryptanalysis Effort

Matthew Green has a new site that tries to estimate the number of cryptanalyst-hours that have been spent analyzing different public-key algorithms: Abstract: We estimate how much...

Модель Claude Fable 5.1 за 44 минуты взломала шифр, над которым криптографы бились с 1653 года

Новая модель Claude Fable 5.1 от Anthropic нашла решение криптограммы XVII века шотландского писателя Томаса Уркхарта (Thomas Urquhart) за 44 минуты, разгадав шифр, который ставил...

Vitalik Buterin proposes a new way to handle Ethereum cryptography

Vitalik Buterin backs EIP-8288, a draft Ethereum proposal to aggregate cryptographic proofs, reduce on-chain data needs and support new signature systems.

Ripple's Head of Engineering Reacts to AI Solving Decades-Old Cryptography Mystery

Ripple's head of engineering has reacted to an AI breakthrough that solved a 25-year-old cryptography mystery, shedding new light on longstanding concerns about potential NSA backd...

‘Mixed feelings’ as AI cracks centuries-old ciphers

Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the wartime missive written in code, creating a puzzle that went unsolved for more than 200 years – until AI cracked it in a matter of hours. Artificial...

'Checkmate Satoshi?' Adam Back Reacts to Ledger Cofounder's Take on AI's ECDSA Findings

Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins, solving 26 year old cryptography mystery.

How Alan Turing and His Fellow Codebreakers Broke the Nazis’ “Unbreakable” Enigma Code

There was a time when you could just go out and buy an Enigma machine. In the early nineteen-twenties, any organization with a need to keep its communications secret could order a...

Charles Hoskinson Disputes Vitalik Buterin’s Warning Against Lattice Cryptography

Hoskinson argues that decades of lattice cryptanalysis already inform ML-KEM and ML-DSA security parameters, challenging Vitalik's fears.