AI’s Potential Future in Cryptanalysis

Summary

Matthew Green has written a pessimistic series about the possibility that AI systems could vastly outperform humans at cryptanalysis of both symmetric and public-key ciphers. This article takes a more optimistic position. Its author says cryptographers’ tendency to over-engineer systems may provide stronger protection than Green expects. The author is working on a more detailed treatment, but this post does not present specific models, experiments, or technical results.