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Evening brief, Oct 16

Claude traces the origins of five NIST elliptic-curve seeds

Anthropic reproduced the prime-curve seeds using a timestamp-seeded pseudorandom generator; cryptographer Filippo Valsorda independently checked the result and says the limited seed-choice freedom rules out a proposed backdoor method. The result strengthens confidence in widely used cryptographic curves.

Anthropic research · Filippo Valsorda

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