NIST Elliptic Curve Seeds Bounty Claimed, Solving a 25-Year-Old Crypto Mystery
aburan28 · hn · 2026-10-17
Filippo Valsorda reports that the bounty for the NIST elliptic curve seeds has been claimed. The seeds, generated in 1997 and long suspected of potentially involving the NSA, were the target of a community challenge to find inputs matching their SHA-1 hashes. The mystery now appears solved; discussion on Hacker News.
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