Oct 20, 2026 · 2 hr 32 min · 18 segments
An unreleased AI solved a 26-year-old cryptographic secret in less than half an hour, exposing the origins of a widely used standard. Discover what this jaw-dropping breakthrough means for the future…
Steve GibsonHost
Mikah SargentHost
Last month's more than a thousand patches resulted in a lot of breakage of things that worked before you applied the patches.
And in fact, this Tuesday, last Tuesday of a week ago, this Wednesday's Patch Tuesday, also served to finally provide some permanent fixes to the things they broke.
Also, Palo Alto Networks, Unit 42, and I should say right up front, because I'll be talking about Palo Alto Networks at various points during this podcast, is a sponsor of the TWIT Network.
They provide a really interesting report on an agentic attack on an unnamed enterprise.
Their identity is just being kept on the QT for the sake of the enterprise's integrity.
We learn a lot from what they share, and it moves my own needle of expectations for the future, which is what we'll get to talking about here toward the end.
There was also a really interesting and actually frightening large hardware hack of physical cryptocurrency wallets which resulted in a lot of loss of money by those who were using it um we got some we have some interesting takeaways from that also In fact, one of them will be what to do to create your own known safe crypto hardware wallet if you want one.
And then I want to talk about, and this feeds back into this Unit 42 Palo Alto Networks attack, about some other news that Anthropic shared with the industry last week, where They were able to get an unreleased model of Claude to reverse engineer and determine the never before known origin of some crypto parameters, which the industry standardized on.
Without knowing where they came from, beyond knowing that the NSA gave them to us.
And there was already reason to be suspicious because there was another instance that we talked about on the podcast many years ago regarding a – sort of off the map, why would you choose to use this random bit generator, which the NSA reportedly reported by Reuters paid RSA $10 million to make their default.
Last month's more than a thousand patches resulted in a lot of breakage of things that worked before you applied the patches.
And in fact, this Tuesday, last Tuesday of a week ago, this Wednesday's Patch Tuesday, also served to finally provide some permanent fixes to the things they broke.
Also, Palo Alto Networks, Unit 42, and I should say right up front, because I'll be talking about Palo Alto Networks at various points during this podcast, is a sponsor of the TWIT Network.
They provide a really interesting report on an agentic attack on an unnamed enterprise.
Their identity is just being kept on the QT for the sake of the enterprise's integrity.
We learn a lot from what they share, and it moves my own needle of expectations for the future, which is what we'll get to talking about here toward the end.
There was also a really interesting and actually frightening large hardware hack of physical cryptocurrency wallets which resulted in a lot of loss of money by those who were using it um we got some we have some interesting takeaways from that also In fact, one of them will be what to do to create your own known safe crypto hardware wallet if you want one.
And then I want to talk about, and this feeds back into this Unit 42 Palo Alto Networks attack, about some other news that Anthropic shared with the industry last week, where They were able to get an unreleased model of Claude to reverse engineer and determine the never before known origin of some crypto parameters, which the industry standardized on.
Without knowing where they came from, beyond knowing that the NSA gave them to us.
And there was already reason to be suspicious because there was another instance that we talked about on the podcast many years ago regarding a – sort of off the map, why would you choose to use this random bit generator, which the NSA reportedly reported by Reuters paid RSA $10 million to make their default.
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