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Quoting Matthew Green
Engineers responsible for cryptographic infrastructure face a looming migration to post-quantum algorithms regardless. If AI cryptanalysis matures during this transition, it could either harden confidence in candidate post-quantum standards by stress-testing them early, or, in the worst case, undermine both legacy and replacement hard problems simultaneously.
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The industry is mid-transition from traditional public-key algorithms (RSA, EC-based) to post-quantum algorithms based on novel problems, with standards like HAWK under consideration.
Green contends this transition period is the best possible time for AI cryptanalysis capabilities to arrive, because the result could be more robust cryptanalysis literature and greater confidence in the problems chosen for standardization.
The commentary was prompted by Anthropic's recent cryptography work, indicating that major AI labs are actively exploring cryptanalysis applications.
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