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3 hours ago

Why should we believe that LLMs are going to break ECC?

LLMs probably won't break curve cryptography. Cryptography researchers armed with LLMs are a different story.

  • Okay and why should we believe that?

    • It depends a lot on your priors. I think making existing cryptography researchers hyperefficient and much more mathematically capable is likely to generate some disruptive results, but you may disagree.

  • Don't forget LLMs can now design efficient high speed hardware systems, a traditional slow-down for many attackers which represents a significant barrier to scalable next-gen attacks falling. Unfortunately memory prices are through the roof, but that isn't always significant.