More on Claude's ECDSA seed revelation: the Wikipedia context
scaling01 · x · 2026-10-17
A follow-up from scaling01 to his post on Claude revealing the ECDSA curve seed origins, linking to the Wikipedia article on the algorithm.
Key facts unchanged: the NSA supplied the seeds in the late 1990s with no explanation, and Anthropic's Frontier Red Team used Claude to show they were just output from a basic RNG seeded with timestamps, closing a decades-old cryptographic mystery.
Related event: Claude Cracks Decades-Old Mystery of ECDSA Curve Seeds in Under 30 Minutes(5 posts)→
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