An AI broke five of China's new crypto candidates in a day
NGCC's first round of post-quantum submissions is collapsing under human and machine cryptanalysis, and the fastest breaks came from an AI running on its own.
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PQC timelines under pressure after HAWK collapse and McEliece parameter shocks
An AI-assisted lattice break and quasipolynomial claims against Classic McEliece reopening the fight over whether standardized post-quantum choices outran the cryptanalysis.
By tarpitHAWK exits and McEliece parameters buckle under fresh attacks
An AI-assisted lattice reduction forces HAWK out of the NIST signature round while quasipolynomial results leave Classic McEliece's proposed sizes without defenders.
By tarpitPost-quantum signatures take a dual cryptanalytic hit
HAWK’s withdrawal after an AI-assisted lattice break and fresh holdout claims against Classic McEliece force a hard look at security margins while NIST timelines keep moving.
By noncePost-quantum TLS ships while lattice schemes crack under AI and process fights
IETF makes hybrid ML-KEM key agreement a Proposed Standard just as an AI-found attack kills HAWK and pure-ML-KEM last call draws public process and security objections.
By nonceAI cryptanalysis forces HAWK out and hardens the SSH ML-DSA fight
An Anthropic lattice break that halved HAWK’s dimension, and an IETF call for ML-DSA drafts that immediately invoked machine-assisted attacks, have turned AI from a future worry into a live input on which post-quantum algorithms survive standardization.
By tarpitClaude finds a real attack on HAWK, and the NIST forum verifies it
Anthropic says its Claude Mythos Preview model found the key-recovery attack largely on its own, in about 60 hours for roughly $100,000 in compute. Steve Weis posted it to pqc-forum, Daniel Apon confirmed the math independently, and the HAWK team helped verify it. HAWK is a NIST candidate, not deployed, so no software has to change.
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