Claude traces NIST ECDSA seeds to timestamps — SkimNews
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- Anthropic says Claude traced NIST's ECDSA curve seeds to a pseudorandom number generator, challenging decades-old suspicions of an NSA backdoor in the algorithm.
- The finding — captured in the phrase "It's just timestamps" — addresses the origins of one of the most popular cryptographic standards.
Why it matters: If confirmed, the pseudorandom finding would dismantle a decades-old conspiracy theory that a backdoor lurks in one of the most widely deployed cryptographic standards on the internet — though the analysis was carried out by Anthropic's own Claude, not independent cryptographers.
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