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Anthropic: Claude Traced NIST ECDSA Curve Seeds to PRNG, Challenging NSA Backdoor Suspicions

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Anthropic reported that its AI model Claude traced the seed values of NIST's ECDSA elliptic curve to a pseudorandom number generator, potentially resolving a decades-old mystery about the origins of a widely used cryptographic standard. The finding challenges long-standing suspicions that the seeds concealed an NSA backdoor, with Anthropic noting the seeds were 'just timestamps.'

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    Anthropic says Claude traced NIST's ECDSA curve seeds to a pseudorandom number generator, challenging decades-old suspicions of an NSA backdoor in the algorithm (Anthropic)

    Anthropic : Anthropic says Claude traced NIST's ECDSA curve seeds to a pseudorandom number generator, challenging decades-old suspicions of an NSA backdoor in the algorithm — “It's just timestamps”: the decades-old mystery of the origins of one of the most popular cryptographic standards has been explained.

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