The $100K Cryptanalyst
Anthropic published results showing Claude Mythos Preview semi-autonomously developed a novel attack on the HAWK post-quantum signature scheme — reducing its effective security by 26 bits — and a new fingerprinting technique on reduced-round AES that runs 200–800× faster than prior methods. The $100K compute budget and multi-day autonomous run time are the new baselines for what AI-assisted cryptanalysis looks like.
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