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OpenAI Astra Model Solves 10 Open Math and CS Problems

OpenAI Astra Model Solves 10 Open Math and CS Problems

FIRST LOOK ATLAS OWASP HIGH Significant risk · Prioritise patching ▲ 7.8 Mistral AI (via HN)

An internal OpenAI model codenamed Astra has reportedly solved ten significant open problems in mathematics and computer science, signalling a step-change in AI-driven formal reasoning and proof generation. For defenders, this capability raises the stakes considerably: a model capable of resolving frontier research problems can likely also automate the discovery and formalisation of novel software vulnerabilities, cryptographic weaknesses, and algorithm exploits. Security teams should anticipate a near-term acceleration in adversarial research tooling and re-evaluate assumptions about the human effort required to weaponise theoretical vulnerabilities.

LLMs Break Cryptographic Schemes in New CryptanalysisBench Study

LLMs Break Cryptographic Schemes in New CryptanalysisBench Study

ATLAS OWASP HIGH Significant risk · Prioritise patching ▲ 8.2 Schneier on Security

A new benchmark, CryptanalysisBench, demonstrates that frontier LLMs can perform meaningful cryptanalysis, breaking 65–86% of schemes with known practical vulnerabilities and producing novel attacks against previously unbroken primitives. Anthropic's Mythos Preview model uncovered new vulnerabilities in the Hawk signature scheme and reduced-round AES, representing the first AI-discovered cryptanalytic results of this kind. This signals a near-term shift in the threat landscape where AI-assisted cryptanalysis may begin to outpace human expert analysis.

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