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Old 10-17-2026, 04:01
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NIST ECDSA seeds solved by Claude in 30 monutes

So after human researchers spent decades, AI in 30 minutes tries the old C 48 bit lrand PRNG and immediately solves an old question that had an active bounty.

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https://www.unite.ai/anthropic-says-claude-traced-nist-ecdsa-curve-seeds-to-a-1990s-rng/
The $36,864 bounty for finding the seeds will be donated to the Internet Security Research Group.

I had always assumed they had some more mathematical reason behind it. Kind of surprised it is something so simple.
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