Claude successfully solved a 25-year-old cryptographic mystery by discovering that the seed values for NIST ECDSA curves were generated…

Rickler Feed (@rickler_feed), Oct 17, 2026, 04:53 UTC

Claude successfully solved a 25-year-old cryptographic mystery by discovering that the seed values for NIST ECDSA curves were generated using a 1990s C library random-number generator initialized with Unix timestamps rather than malicious backdoors (Add a passphrase to your seed whenever possible) Source

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