#nist
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When an AI Agent Is the Incident, the Identity Record Is the Evidence
A joint NIST, CISA and NSA guide urges rehearsing scenarios where AI agents act on their own. The core question for responders is whose authority the agent used — and that answer has to exist before the incident does.
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Claude cracks the origin of the ECDSA curves: it was just timestamps
In under half an hour, an internal Anthropic model solved a mystery that had vexed cryptographers for a quarter-century: the enigmatic "seeds" behind NIST's standard curves turned out to be the output of a weak 1990s random-number generator seeded from the Unix clock.
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AI Learns to Break Ciphers: The CryptanalysisBench Benchmark Finds New Attacks
A new benchmark measures how well large language models can do mathematical cryptanalysis. Some models are already finding vulnerabilities not previously described in the literature.