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Anthropic's AI Cracked HAWK-256 in 60 Hours, Validating Bitcoin's PQ Caution
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TFTC – Truth for the Commoner
Anthropic's Claude Mythos found a novel attack on a NIST post-quantum finalist that human researchers missed for years.
No Bitcoin held today is at risk: Bitcoin runs ECDSA, HAWK has never been deployed anywhere, and BIP-360 targets already-finalized NIST schemes (ML-DSA, SLH-DSA), not HAWK.
As Anthropic's post states, "The purpose of NIST's standardization process is to discover weaknesses in candidate schemes before they are deployed."
The NIST process remains the public check; it no longer enjoys a monopoly on the capability to run it.
A $100,000 AI campaign that can stress-test a post-quantum candidate in 60 hours is no longer a proof-of-concept.