Anthropic’s Claude cracks a 25-year NSA curve mystery, what it means for bitcoin

Anthropic’s Claude cracks a 25-year NSA curve mystery, what it means for bitcoin

Numbers the spy agency handed over in the 1990s, long suspected of hiding a backdoor, turn out to have come from a basic computer program. Bitcoin was never on that list, and its quantum problem hasn’t gone anywhere.

Anthropic’s Claude AI Uncovers Origins of NSA-Provided Cryptographic Keys After 25 Years

Anthropic says an internal Claude research model reconstructed how the National Security Agency generated seeds for five NIST elliptic curves in under 30… Read more →

Claude Traces Five NIST Curve Seeds to a Timestamped 1990s Generator

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) prime-curve seeds matched `lrand48` output, while several base-point origins and the B-163 seed remain unresolved.

‘Wow, it’s a real discovery’: Claude cracks a 25-year NSA number mystery

‘Wow, it’s a real discovery’: Claude cracks a 25-year NSA number mystery Numbers the spy agency handed over in the 1990s, long suspected of hiding a backdoor, turn out to have come from a basic computer program. Bitcoin was never on that list, and its quantum problem hasn’t gone anywhere.