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Claude Traces NIST Cryptography Seeds To An Old Random-Number Generator

By Bitcoinist Editorial Team at 2026-10-26 02:26

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An unusual piece of cryptography history has gained an answer. Anthropic says Claude reconstructed how the original seed values behind several widely used NIST elliptic curves were generated, resolving a question that had attracted suspicion for more than two decades. TL;DR: Claude identified a process involving the C library’s lrand48 generator and Unix timestamps. Anthropic […] Continue reading...

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