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Anthropics' Claude cracks a 25-year-old NSA cryptography mystery in under 30 minutes

Anthropic's Claude solved a 25-year-old cryptography puzzle in under 30 minutes. The model identified the seeds behind NIST curves as originating from a simple C random number generator. This finding suggests the NSA did not intentionally embed backdoors into the standard curves.

The Decoder·Oct 17, 2026

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