timtyler comments on Cryptographic Boxes for Unfriendly AI - Less Wrong
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This isn't really right. With the cases where algorithms can be proved as secure as some math problem, you can attack the protocol they are used in - or the RNG that seeds them - but the not really the algorithm itself. Of course, not all cryptography is like that, though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provable_security