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jerftoday at 3:08 AM1 replyview on HN

I think you misunderstand. The idea is not that one feeds a cryptographic text to LLMs and they crack it. The idea is that one feeds a cryptographic algorithm to an LLM and they break it somehow. Bear in mind that cryptographers consider a "break" anything that reduces the strength of an algorithm, but that doesn't mean that it is practical to use the given "break" to obtain even one plaintext, let alone obtain them all.


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km3rtoday at 3:33 AM

Many crypto algorithms have formal proofs that they are reductions of hard problems like factorization. Those problems may not be solvable, only brute forcible. Some could be eventually solved, but the likelihood of every single one being solvable is unlikely.