Anthropic's Frontier Red Team reported in a research publication on October 16, 2026, that an internal Claude research model had traced the origins of the NIST ECDSA curve seeds to the C library's lrand48 random-number generator seeded with Unix timestamps, answering a provenance question that had been open since the NSA supplied the values without explanation. The Unexplained NSA Seeds ECDSA is the most widely used elliptic curve cryptography standard. NIST adopted it in 2000 as part of the…
This article has been indexed from Unite.AI
Read the original article: