AI Matters
Why it matters
Anthropic's AI cracks a cryptography algorithm meant to resist future hacks
Ars Technica Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission
An Anthropic model found a fatal weakness in HAWK, a post-quantum encryption candidate that had passed years of prior testing.
Why it matters
The finding could affect efforts to secure data against future quantum computers, since it targeted a leading proposed encryption standard.
Latest brief · Jul 30, 2026