Root Causes 648: Claude Mythos Discovers New HAWK and AES Attacks
Root Causes: A PKI and Security PodcastShow Notes
Anthropic recently announced that Mythos has found mathematical weakness in the core algorithm for the third-round NIST PQC candidate HAWK, effectively halving its effective key strength. Mythos also developed a faster attack on a round-reduced version of AES-128. These are not implementation attacks but mathematical attacks on the core cryptography. We discuss the massive implications of these developments.
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