Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission

Ars Technica reports that HAWK, a post-quantum cryptography algorithm under consideration for U.S. standardization, has been withdrawn. An Anthropic security model called Mythos discovered a flaw during NIST's third round of testing that rendered the algorithm broken. The algorithm's developer withdrew it after Anthropic announced the discovery.

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