Anthropic finds new cracks in the tech meant to guard Bitcoin from 'Q-Day'

Jul 28, 2026 9:48 PMPublished Jul 28, 2026 9:48 PM

Human cryptographers are officially obsolete. In just 60 hours, Claude slashed the security of HAWK—a leading "quantum-proof" standard—in half, despite it surviving two years of expert review. If AI can dismantle the very tech meant to save Bitcoin from quantum computers before those computers even exist, our future defenses are already dead on arrival. We are losing the arms race to our own tools. Is any encryption truly safe if AI can out-think its creators?
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Anthropic's AI found real weaknesses in HAWK, a candidate for future post-quantum encryption, and in a research version of AES.

www.thestreet.comAnthropic finds new cracks in the tech meant to guard Bitcoin from 'Q-Day'Anthropic's AI found real weaknesses in HAWK, a candidate for future post-quantum encryption, and in a research version of AES.

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