AI meets Cryptography 3: What AI Found in Bron Labs's bron-crypto
AI meets Cryptography 3: What AI Found in Bron Labs's bron-crypto Stefanos Chaliasos, Hao Pham, False Witness Team July 22, 2026 13 min read security crypto AI zkao audit mpc This is the third post in the series. If you have not read the first one on Cloudflare's CIRCL or the second on OpenVM's zkVM, we recommend reading them first. They have more context on why we run these experiments and how the pipeline is set up.
- ▪AI meets Cryptography 3: What AI Found in Bron Labs's bron-crypto Stefanos Chaliasos, Hao Pham, False Witness Team July 22, 2026 13 min read security crypto AI zkao audit mpc This is the third post in the series.
- ▪If you have not read the first one on Cloudflare's CIRCL or the second on OpenVM's zkVM, we recommend reading them first.
- ▪They have more context on why we run these experiments and how the pipeline is set up.
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AI meets Cryptography 3: What AI Found in Bron Labs's bron-crypto Stefanos Chaliasos, Hao Pham, False Witness Team July 22, 2026 13 min read security crypto AI zkao audit mpc This is the third post in the series. If you have not read the first one on Cloudflare's CIRCL or the second on OpenVM's zkVM, we recommend reading them first. They have more context on why we run these experiments and how the pipeline is set up. Above all, because they are fun. This time, we pointed our AI audit pipeline at bron-crypto, Bron Labs's Go library for MPC and threshold signatures, and detected some zero-day vulnerabilities. bron-crypto is Bron Labs's cryptography library. While it mostly focuses on MPC protocols, it also supports many other primitives that are reusable by other applications.
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