{"id":"tp-35286","type":"article-newspaper","title":"AI-Assisted Attack Cuts HAWK-512 Key-Recovery Cost Estimate to 2^108 Gates","author":"Simon Yoon","publisher":"TOKENPOST Inc.","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/35286","datePublished":"2026-10-20T03:54:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-20T03:54:28.000Z","language":"en","abstract":"The HAWK team withdrew the candidate from a U.S. review in July. Researchers demonstrated recovery on the smaller HAWK-256 challenge, while a comparable attack on HAWK-512 remains impractical.","section":"Technology","references":[{"title":"Strongpoint connection with Quantus","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com/news/business/27727"}]}