Claude cracks decades-old ECDSA seed mystery: origins were just a joke passphrase
tlakomy · x · 2026-10-17
Anthropic published a blog closing a decades-old crypto mystery: the unexplained NSA-provided seed values behind NIST's ECDSA elliptic curves. The best explanation: longtime NSA employee Jerry Solinas generated them from hashes of humorous passphrases like "Give Bob and Jerry a raise". No backdoor, no action needed — and the poster jokes this is what an "AI bubble" produces.
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