Anthropic says Claude improved attacks on HAWK and reduced-round AES

The July 28th disclosure says Claude Mythos Preview improved attacks on a NIST post-quantum signature candidate and a reduced-round AES variant, with no reported production impact.

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Primary source: Anthropic

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Claude has moved from finding implementation bugs to proposing attacks on cryptographic designs. Founders, security teams and infrastructure operators need expert validation, responsible-disclosure procedures and model-access controls before similar methods target deployed systems.

Illustration of Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview probing a cracked lock labeled HAWK and AES, revealing a cryptographic vulnerability.

Anthropic, co-founded by Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei, said on July 28th that its controlled-access Claude Mythos Preview model helped researchers improve the best-known attack on HAWK, a post-quantum signature candidate that advanced to the third round of a US government standardization process in May.…

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