Their homepage states this is some sort of "AI-governed nation" https://stateofutopia.com/
We broke 92% of SHA-256 – you should start to migrate from it
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Re: We broke 92% of SHA-256 – you should start to migrate from it
#22From https://stateofutopia.com/papers/2/intermediate-report.pdf
> his report was generated on 2026-03-22 as the final artifact of the SHA-256 Cryptanalysis Research Project. Collaboration: Robert V. (research direction, strategy) and Claude/Anthropic (implementation, computation).
This Claude guy is pretty prolific it seems.
But I'll wait for some known cryptographers to chime in
Re: We broke 92% of SHA-256 – you should start to migrate from it
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Re: We broke 92% of SHA-256 – you should start to migrate from it
#24I'd expect a finding / paper like this to be submitted to the IACR ePrint server [1] to bring it to the attention of the cryptographic community. I can't see that it's been submitted yet.
Venue should not imply credibility but in this case it would certainly help bring the proper scrutiny.
Re: We broke 92% of SHA-256 – you should start to migrate from it
#25In the linked work, we've broken 92% of SHA-256 across its full 64 rounds, and were encouraged to publish it by the leading cryptographer in the field (who held the previous record). Currently, SHA-256 is the basis of TLS certificates, bitcoin, and many other security applications. We think it is time to begin to migrate to other hash families, because we expect the rest of SHA-256 to fall soon.
Why omit the name of the leading cryptographer in the field?
Pretty sure his first name is Claude. He is quite good I hear ;-)
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#26S-tier schizoposting
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#27ROFL
Re: We broke 92% of SHA-256 – you should start to migrate from it
#28In the linked work, we've broken 92% of SHA-256 across its full 64 rounds, and were encouraged to publish it by the leading cryptographer in the field (who held the previous record). Currently, SHA-256 is the basis of TLS certificates, bitcoin, and many other security applications. We think it is time to begin to migrate to other hash families, because we expect the rest of SHA-256 to fall soon.
Go seek a mental health professional and never post here again until you have been diagnosed and medicated.
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#29I know people (especially around here) hate it when people just post AI output, and I generally agree, since it is trivial for anyone else who is interested to do the same thing. However, the majority of the comments here are from people seemingly asking the author (or someone else) to explain how significant this is, without having taken that step themselves. So while I normally wouldn't do this, in this case it seems helpful. Claude thought the paper was interesting and had a novel cryptographic technique, but that the claims of near-term breaking of the SHA-256 algorithm to be unsupported. Here's the conversation:
https://claude.ai/share/b10b95ef-5d9f-43dd-9005-3d1d89f9dbc1
Re: We broke 92% of SHA-256 – you should start to migrate from it
#30In the linked work, we've broken 92% of SHA-256 across its full 64 rounds, and were encouraged to publish it by the leading cryptographer in the field (who held the previous record). Currently, SHA-256 is the basis of TLS certificates, bitcoin, and many other security applications. We think it is time to begin to migrate to other hash families, because we expect the rest of SHA-256 to fall soon.
Why omit the name of the leading cryptographer in the field?
shallow broad vague boastful and wordy, this way you know the LLM is nearby...