[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-when-ai-writes-your-crypto-code-security-quietly-slips":10,"sections":34},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":29,"feedback":33,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":33,"total_tokens":33},1709,"when-ai-writes-your-crypto-code-security-quietly-slips","When AI Writes Your Crypto Code, Security Quietly Slips","A new paper warns that leaning on LLMs for post-quantum cryptography work erodes secure coding habits over time and proposes a gamified framework to push back.","AI coding assistants may be quietly degrading the security of post-quantum cryptography implementations, according to new academic research.\n\nResearchers have identified what they call \"Secure Coding Drift\" — a gradual erosion of secure coding practices that sets in when developers rely heavily on LLM-generated code for cryptographic work. The paper focuses on post-quantum cryptography (PQC), the family of algorithms designed to resist attacks from quantum computers, which demands unusually strict implementation requirements: constant-time execution, side-channel resistance, and precise parameter handling. The authors argue that LLMs frequently get these details wrong, and that the bigger problem is longitudinal — the more developers outsource to AI, the more their own vigilance atrophies.\n\nThat framing matters because most prior research treats AI-generated security flaws as a static problem: bad code, find it, fix it. This paper treats it as a behavioral one, which is harder to patch. Post-quantum standards are only just being finalized and deployed widely, meaning the habits developers form now will shape the security of systems that need to last decades — not a great moment for a slow-motion skills slide.\n\nThe proposed fix is a gamified coding framework that turns LLMs into \"security co-pilots\" by embedding adversarial evaluation and scoring into the development loop — essentially using AI to police AI. Whether gamification can meaningfully counter institutional pressure to ship fast is a question the paper does not fully answer.","[\"post-quantum cryptography\",\"ai\",\"security\",\"developer-tools\"]","2026-06-19T04:00:00.000Z","2026-06-19T10:23:02.929Z","2026-06-19T14:21:37.646Z","published",null,[],"security",[26,27,24,28],"post-quantum cryptography","ai","developer-tools",[30],{"name":31,"url":32},"arXiv cs.AI","https:\u002F\u002Farxiv.org\u002Fabs\u002F2606.19474",0,{"sections":35},[36,40,43,48,53,58,63,67,71,76,81,86,91,96],{"name":37,"slug":27,"count":38,"latest_published_at":39},"AI",491,"2026-06-19T14:59:11.000Z",{"name":41,"slug":24,"count":42,"latest_published_at":18},"Security",132,{"name":44,"slug":45,"count":46,"latest_published_at":47},"Policy","policy",88,"2026-06-16T09:26:09.000Z",{"name":49,"slug":50,"count":51,"latest_published_at":52},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",78,"2026-06-16T17:58:24.000Z",{"name":54,"slug":55,"count":56,"latest_published_at":57},"Hardware","hardware",62,"2026-06-18T15:24:16.000Z",{"name":59,"slug":60,"count":61,"latest_published_at":62},"Deals","deals",58,"2026-06-19T14:43:50.000Z",{"name":64,"slug":65,"count":61,"latest_published_at":66},"Software","software","2026-06-16T20:00:00.000Z",{"name":68,"slug":69,"count":70,"latest_published_at":18},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",50,{"name":72,"slug":73,"count":74,"latest_published_at":75},"Science","science",38,"2026-06-18T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":77,"slug":78,"count":79,"latest_published_at":80},"Gaming","gaming",31,"2026-06-16T15:25:13.000Z",{"name":82,"slug":83,"count":84,"latest_published_at":85},"General","general",26,"2026-06-13T18:35:15.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"Startups","startups",23,"2026-06-16T15:00:00.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":93,"count":94,"latest_published_at":95},"Reviews","reviews",19,"2026-06-14T08:00:00.000Z",{"name":97,"slug":98,"count":99,"latest_published_at":100},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]