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Cryptography

Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for securing information and communication, using mathematical methods such as encryption, digital signatures and hashing to keep data private, authentic and unaltered.

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Oct 8, 2026
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Oct 16, 2026

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  • Anthropic says Claude traced NIST's ECDSA curve seeds to a pseudorandom number generator, challenging decades-old suspicions of an NSA backdoor in the algorithm (Anthropic) Oct 16, 2026
  • Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins Oct 16, 2026
  • A theoretical computer scientist, citing sources, says AI labs have quietly started probing whether their models can break important cryptographic protocols (Scott Aaronson/Shtetl-Optimized) Oct 8, 2026
  • Vitalik Buterin says "we should take the risks to cryptography from AI-accelerated math seriously", backing a "bunker mode" call for the blockchain industry (Felix Ng/Cointelegraph) Oct 8, 2026
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