Claude Traces NIST Cryptography Seeds To An Old Random-Number Generator
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 […]
Key Takeaways
- 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.
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