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Cryptography Engineering
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A new essay on the Cryptography Engineering blog asks whether sandboxing is enough to keep rogue AI agents contained. The author examines the limits of isolation techniques when autonomous software can act, adapt and pursue goals, arguing that conventional containment assumptions may not hold for agentic systems. Readers on Hacker News are debating whether technical barriers alone can constrain software agents that misbehave.
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A developer has built a working 3D model of the Enigma machine, available at enigma.design. Users can explore and operate the famous German encryption device in their browser, seeing its rotors and mechanisms in action. On Hacker News the project drew quick attention, with commenters discussing the machine's wartime history, its cryptographic mechanics, and the technical craft involved in simulating it faithfully.