Anthropic AI Model Weakens HAWK Minimum Key Strength in 60 Hours
2026-07-30 04:27
Odaily Odaily Planet Daily News: Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview model discovered a flaw in the proposed HAWK digital signature scheme, effectively halving its minimum key strength. HAWK is one of the candidate schemes to replace current network and bank signatures in a post-quantum environment.
This AI-driven attack took approximately 60 hours, with a computational cost of around $100,000, reducing the effort required to break HAWK's minimum parameter set from roughly 2^64 operations to 2^38 operations, and diminishing the attractiveness of larger compensating key sizes.
Current Bitcoin and Ethereum signatures remain unaffected. The results indicate that the capabilities of classical cryptanalysis attacks are improving, while Bitcoin and other networks continue to discuss when and how to migrate to quantum-resistant cryptography.
This AI-driven attack took approximately 60 hours, with a computational cost of around $100,000, reducing the effort required to break HAWK's minimum parameter set from roughly 2^64 operations to 2^38 operations, and diminishing the attractiveness of larger compensating key sizes.
Current Bitcoin and Ethereum signatures remain unaffected. The results indicate that the capabilities of classical cryptanalysis attacks are improving, while Bitcoin and other networks continue to discuss when and how to migrate to quantum-resistant cryptography.
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