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Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

L5 · ResearcherResearchHacker News· 10/16/2026

Reveals AI's capability to solve complex cryptographic research problems that eluded human experts for years.

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Claude AI discovered that NIST's ECDSA cryptographic seeds were generated from Unix timestamps using lrand48 RNG, solving a decades-old mystery in cryptography.

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