Claude AI Solves NSA’s 25-Year Cryptography Seed Mystery
Key Highlights: An internal Claude research model at Anthropic solved a 25-year-old cryptographic enigma regarding the origin of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) 160-bit elliptic curve seeds in under 30 minutes. The investigation revealed the seeds were generated via the Unix pseudorandom generator lrand48 seeded with ordinary timestamps from 1997 and 1998, disproving rumors of ...