Can AI break encryption? OpenAI’s new math has cryptographers divided

OpenAI s bumper crop of 722 math papers wowed and worried the research community and cryptographers are split over whether the algorithms that protect our texts and bank log-ins are next

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2026-10-15 14:30 · Scientific American
Can AI break encryption? OpenAI’s new math has cryptographers divided

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