> The equivalent of an existing handwriting recognizer for e.g. RSA wouldn't be a model that tells you how to crack RSA, it'd be a model that _does_ crack it (maybe by returning a probability distribution over the plaintext that's better than uniform). That feels pretty unlikely to me personally, but maybe that's doable, who knows.
Well, my point was based on the assumption that there is a flaw/backdoor in RSA, but nobody has discovered it yet. So you'd just need a model that can take a textual description of the algorithm as input, and spit out a list of logical errors/flaws.
I'm not saying there is a flaw or backdoor, but if there were, then a LLM would potentially be able to find it, while a team of human experts could miss it.
A model that receives an RSA encrypted payload and outputs the decrypted version would of course be impossible unless the above assumption is true... or you give it access to some compute power so it can either try to brute-force it, or try to track down and hack the servers with the keys :P
> So you'd just need a model that can take a textual description of the algorithm as input, and spit out a list of logical errors/flaws.
Right, I'm saying that this is the thing that's dissimilar from handwriting recognition -- the nearer equivalent would an LLM creating a textual description of a novel approach to handwriting recognition, which as far as I'm aware, is beyond current models.
Well, my point was based on the assumption that there is a flaw/backdoor in RSA, but nobody has discovered it yet. So you'd just need a model that can take a textual description of the algorithm as input, and spit out a list of logical errors/flaws.
I'm not saying there is a flaw or backdoor, but if there were, then a LLM would potentially be able to find it, while a team of human experts could miss it.
A model that receives an RSA encrypted payload and outputs the decrypted version would of course be impossible unless the above assumption is true... or you give it access to some compute power so it can either try to brute-force it, or try to track down and hack the servers with the keys :P