<p>Matthew Green <a href="https://x.com/matthew_d_green/status/2107992246360649879">has</a> <a href="https://x.com/matthew_d_green/status/2108278850555674975?s=46">been</a> <a href="https://x.com/matthew_d_green/status/2108552414978564418">writing</a> a rather pessimistic series of posts about the potential for AI systems to vastly outperform humans in cryptanalysis of both symmetric and public-key ciphers.</p>
<p>I am more optimistic than he is. That is, I have stronger faith in the over-engineering cryptographers tend to do. I am trying to write this up in more detail.</p>