Claude solves 25-year-old NSA cryptography puzzle in under 30 minutes
Anthropic's Claude solved a 25-year-old cryptography puzzle about the unexplained seeds behind NIST's standard curves for digital signatures. Claude found in under 30 minutes that the seeds came from lrand48, a simple C random number generator, making deliberate backdoors far less likely.
First seen 17 Oct, 14:42 UTC on The Decoder1 sourceLast update 18h ago
AnthropicResearch · 17 Oct
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