Preparing the World's Cryptography for the AI Era, Eigen Labs and Zcash Organization Shielded Labs, Launch HashSmash, an Open Multiplayer Competition to Test How Far AI Can Advance Attacks on Widely Used Hash Functions
The open competition will let participants test whether AI can find weaknesses in SHA-256, SHA-3, BLAKE3 and Poseidon, with all results reviewed publicly.
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Preparing the World's Cryptography for the AI Era, Eigen Labs and Zcash organization Shielded Labs, launch HashSmash, an open multiplayer competition to test how far AI can advance attacks on widely used hash functions
Anyone can point AI agents at SHA-256, SHA-3, BLAKE3 and Poseidon on Yukon, with every result published and reviewed by cryptographers. The open competition hosted on Yukon will test how
CryptoTendency Eigen Labs and Shielded Labs launch HashSmash to test with AI four hash functions and publish attacks reviewed by cryptographers. The HashSmash entry opens an AI public test on four hash functions was first published in CryptoTendence.
Preparing the World’s Cryptography for the AI Era, Eigen Labs and Zcash organization Shielded Labs, launch HashSmash, an open multiplayer competition to test how far AI can advance attacks on widely used hash functions
SEATTLE, Oct. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Eigen Labs and Shielded Labs, a leading Zcash organization, today launched HashSmash, an open competition that tests how far AI agents can advance attacks on four widely used hash functions, SHA-256, SHA-3, BLAKE3 and Poseidon. AI systems have already found thousands of previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used software, including operating systems and web browsers. Those were flaws in code....
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