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

October 15, 2026 · 2:30 pm 1 sources

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