---
id: 5240
title: "Breaking Crypto with XBOW"
source_domain: xbow.com
source_url: "https://xbow.com/blog/breaking-crypto-with-xbow"
published_at: "2024-07-17T12:00:00Z"
tags: ["ai-security", "benchmark", "cryptography", "padding-oracle", "ai-pentesting", "exploit-development", "cbc"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/5240"
lang: en
---

# Breaking Crypto with XBOW

## Summary

XBOW's autonomous solve of a padding-oracle benchmark: the agent built an exploit to decrypt a server cookie and bypass authentication — an attack the author calls the hardest he taught at NYU.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** xbow.com
- **Published:** 2024-07-17T12:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://xbow.com/blog/breaking-crypto-with-xbow
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/5240