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Claude cracks 25-year-old NSA curve mystery

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Anthropic's Claude solved a 25-year-old cryptography mystery by identifying the seeds behind the ECDSA curves that NIST standardized in 2000, according to The Decoder. The report says the work took under 30 minutes. The seeds' origin had been unknown since the curves were standardized, leaving open how the parameters were generated.

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Oct 17
  1. The Decoder
    Anthropic's Claude cracks a 25-year-old NSA cryptography mystery in under 30 minutes

    Anthropic's Claude solved a 25-year-old cryptography mystery by identifying the seeds behind the ECDSA curves that NIST standardized in 2000.

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