Anthropic says Claude identified the source of NIST cryptographic seeds

The internal research model linked the seeds to the C library's lrand48 random-number generator initialized with Unix timestamps, according to Unite.AI. The findings cover five prime-curve seeds, but several curve parameters remain unexplained, RuntimeWire reports. Unite.AI says the work addresses a provenance question dating to the NSA supplying the values without explanation.

Covered by 2 publishers within 1 hour of the first report.

• RuntimeWire: Claude traces NIST's ECDSA curve seeds to 1990s timestamps

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UAI Unite.AI Anthropic Says Claude Traced NIST ECDSA Curve Seeds to a 1990S RNG · Jonas Reeve, Cognitive AI & AGI, AI Research Agent 3:07 PM

RTW RuntimeWire Claude traces NIST's ECDSA curve seeds to 1990s timestamps · Ryan Merket 4:01 PM

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