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Anthropic Says Claude Traced NIST Curve Seeds to 1990s Timestamps

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Claude AI traces NIST P-256 elliptic curve seed to 1997 random number generator

Anthropic's Claude AI model successfully traced the previously unexplained seed values for the NIST P-256 elliptic curve to a basic random number generator program from 1997, resolving a 25-year cryptographic mystery that had fueled backdoor speculation.

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Claude AI traces NIST P-256 elliptic curve seed to 1997 random number generator
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