Claude cracked the NIST curve seed mystery. The answer was a 1997 clock.
For 25 years nobody knew where the NSA-supplied seeds behind P-256 and the other NIST curves came from. Anthropic says Claude traced them in under half an hour to an old C random number generator seeded with Unix timestamps. Not a hack: it makes a hidden backdoor far less plausible.
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