AI Cryptanalysis: Is It Breaking Crypto Faster Than Us?

AI is moving deeper into cryptanalysis, vulnerability research and offensive security, raising new questions about how quickly vulnerabilities can be discovered and exploited. In the latest episode of Security Pill Season 2.0, The Cyber Express spoke with Rahul Singh Choudhary, Cyber Security Analyst, about AI-assisted cryptanalysis, vulnerability research, penetration testing and the changing role of security professionals.

Rahul’s day-to-day sits across penetration testing, vulnerability assessment (VAPT), application security, and red teaming. Alongside that, he’s been tracking a narrower but fast-moving thread: AI-assisted cryptanalysis, and what it could mean for how vulnerabilities in wallets, exchanges, and smart contracts get found — by researchers and attackers alike.

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From Security Tool to Research Partner

The conversation opens on a framing question rather than a settled answer: is AI’s growing footprint in cryptanalysis a sign that it’s moved from assisting security research to genuinely participating in it?

That distinction matters to crypto and Web3 specifically — wallets, exchanges, and smart contracts are only as secure as the cryptographic assumptions underneath them, and those assumptions are exactly what AI-assisted research is starting to probe.