The Combined Cipher Machine

A blog comment references a post on using AI to assist cryptanalysis of an AES-based stream cipher protecting microcontroller code, arguing that machine code’s distinct statistics and compiler/toolchain patterns can help infer plaintext where traditional stream-cipher methods fail. It predicts AI, office file-format regularities, and AI-generated code will amplify recognizable statistical patterns, easing cryptanalysis and attribution, but provides no concrete incident details or indicators.