Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/10/the-future-of-ai-cryptanalysis.html

Matthew 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. I am trying to write this up in more detail.