The Future of AI Cryptanalysis
Bruce Schneier says cryptographic over-engineering should hold up better against AI cryptanalysis than Matthew Green fears.
Bruce Schneier comments on Matthew Green's series arguing that AI could vastly outperform humans at cryptanalysis of symmetric and public-key ciphers. Schneier says he is more optimistic because cryptographers routinely over-engineer designs. The post is a short opinion note, with a more detailed write-up still in progress.
- Schneier responds to Matthew Green's pessimistic AI cryptanalysis series.
- He trusts conservative over-engineering of symmetric and public-key designs.
- The note is brief; a longer write-up is still forthcoming.
From the original article
1 min read at schneier.comMatthew Green has been writing a rather pessimistic series of posts about the potential for AI systems to vastly outperform humans in cryptanalysis of both symmetric and public-key ciphers. I am more optimistic than he is. That is, I have stronger faith in the over-engineering cryptographers tend to do.
By Bruce Schneier · schneier.com
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