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Hello, HellGatesPostmortem of a year-unsolved gate-level crackme that GPT-6 cracked in minutes
xutaxkamay recounts designing HellGates—a VHDL custom CPU with obfuscation, anti-tamper, and anti-debug that stumped humans and LLMs for a year—until GPT-6 solved it in under half an hour, then walks through what actually broke.
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