🤖 NEW: Claude solved the decades-old mystery of NIST elliptic curve seeds in under 30 minutes, tracing them to timestamps.

First reported Oct 16, 2026, 20:10 UTC

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🤖 NEW: Claude solved the decades-old mystery of NIST elliptic curve seeds in under 30 minutes, tracing them to timestamps. — @Cointelegraph (X), Oct 16, 2026, 20:10 UTC
🚨JUST IN: Anthropic’s Claude solves the NSA’s 26 year cryptography mystery in under 30 minutes. Claude found the NSA’s “random” seeds for cryptography curves like P-256 were generated from simple 1997 and 1998 timestamps. Nobody had explained them since NIST published the curves… — @coinbureau (X), Oct 16, 2026, 21:11 UTC
ANTHROPIC SAYS CLAUDE TRACED NIST CURVE SEEDS Five curve seeds trace to a generator initialized with 1997–98 timestamps, the company says. These are public inputs, not wallet seeds; the finding is not a cryptographic break. Read more here… — @DefiantNews (X), Oct 16, 2026, 21:38 UTC

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