Matthew Green on AI and public-key crypto
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Matthew Green on AI and public-key crypto
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Cryptographer Matthew Green estimates a 15% chance that we functionally lose confidence in existing public-key encryption algorithms, a risk he links to AI. The estimate is Green's own, quoted by Simon Willison; it is a probability judgment, not a confirmed break of any current algorithm.
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Cryptographer Matthew Green estimates a 15% chance we functionally lose confidence in existing public-key encryption algorithms.
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