{"slug": "the-intersection-of-encryption-and-ai", "title": "The Intersection of Encryption and AI", "summary": "Bruce Schneier, a renowned technologist and author, warned in a June 20, 2010 column that cryptography is fundamentally unable to secure modern networks against threats like denial-of-service attacks, identity theft, and viruses. Schneier, reflecting on the piece as part of Dark Reading's 20th anniversary, noted he has been arguing this point since 2000, highlighting a persistent gap between encryption capabilities and today's major security challenges.", "body_md": "*As part of their 20th Anniversary celebration, Dark Reading asked five cybersecurity industry leaders who wrote blogs or columns for them over the years to select their favorite piece and share their reflections on the topic today. This is my section.*\n\nRenowned technologist and author Bruce Schneier contributed a column on June 20, 2010, warning about [cryptography’s inability to secure modern networks](https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/the-failure-of-cryptography-to-secure-modern-networks), a point he says he has been trying to argue since 2000.\n\n“For a while now, I’ve pointed out that cryptography is singularly ill-suited to solve the major network security problems of today: denial-of-service attacks, website defacement, theft of credit card numbers, identity theft, viruses and worms, DNS attacks, network penetration, and so on...", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-intersection-of-encryption-and-ai", "canonical_source": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/the-intersection-of-encryption-and-ai.html", "published_at": "2026-06-02 11:06:25+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-03 11:11:03.234809+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Bruce Schneier", "Dark Reading"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-intersection-of-encryption-and-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-intersection-of-encryption-and-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-intersection-of-encryption-and-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-intersection-of-encryption-and-ai.jsonld"}}