Claude cracks 25-year-old ECDSA curve-origin mystery in under 30 minutes
Yuchenj_UW · x · 2026-10-17
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team reports that Claude explained the decades-old mystery behind ECDSA's curve parameter origins — turns out "it's just timestamps" — in under 30 minutes. The poster notes this is a whole class of research problems with huge search spaces but cheap verification, ideal for AI agents to explore hypotheses at scale and make new discoveries.
Related event: Claude Solves Decades-Old ECDSA Curve Seed Mystery in Under 30 Minutes(6 posts)→
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