Claude needed under half an hour for something people in crypto have…

Claude needed under half an hour for something people in crypto have wondered about since the late 90s. Where the NIST curve seeds came from.

Not hashed secret phrases like the old rumour said. Just lrand48 seeded with Unix timestamps from 1997 and 1998. Anthropic says clearly it is not a weakness in the curves, if anything it makes a hidden backdoor less likely.

I still prefer talking to ChatGPT every day. But for this kind of digging I have to give Claude this one.