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In 60 hours, Claude discovered a vulnerability in HAWK-256, a post-quantum challenge algorithm, which two years of human review had failed to detect, reducing the cost of key recovery from 2^64 to 2^38 operations.

The model discovered an attack known as the Möbius bridge against AES-128 reduced to 7 rounds, which is 200 to 800 times faster than the best-known method, but this academic exercise poses no threat to any systems in production.

The technique emerged from three days of largely autonomous work costing around $100,000 in computing resources, followed by several hundred hours of verification by human researchers to validate the attack.

This is pretty cool. Now compare this to all the compute resources spent on vibe coding bullshit apps lol

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