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Re:GPT-OSS Reinforcement Learning by vlovich123 on Saturday September 27, 2025 @01:18PM (#45397644)
If you’re going to be rude and arrogant, then the level of knowledge you exhibit has to match. SHA-256 decryption would be a front of the world achievement because it would be redefining foundational mathematics since it’s not an encryption algorithm. The words you’d be looking for are either a collision of SHA-256 or breaking encryption algorithms like AES, RSA, ECC etc.

sha-256 is used in the construction of certain encryption algorithms as a primitive but by itself never encrypts anything. If it did you’ve also got middleout compression invented since you could encrypt arbitrary length input into 256 bits of output.

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Re:GPT-OSS Reinforcement Learning by danielhanchen on Saturday September 27, 2025 @01:58PM (#45397993)
Oh yes if RL breaks SHA-256 that'll be revolutionary - but definitely not that - some folks are for now investigating basic combinations of old school ciphers for now - security applications with RL are most likely for now related to automatically finding attack surfaces and creating defensive layers - I probably should have re-worded "decryption for RL" to just "security for RL" sorry!
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