AI Used to Decrypt Medieval Ciphers

A set of Bruce Schneier blog posts highlighting recent security developments: researchers using AI/ML to decrypt historical ciphers and AI’s growing role in both cryptanalysis and automated vulnerability discovery; a call for urgent, coordinated vulnerability disclosure and remediation as AI accelerates exploit discovery; controversy over an anonymous researcher publishing Windows/BitLocker exploits and Microsoft’s threatened legal response; a major CISA contractor leak that exposed AWS GovCloud credentials and internal build/deploy data; warnings about Wi‑Fi sensing surveillance capabilities;