Claude and Anthropic team crack the NIST curve seed mystery
What happened
On October 17 at 02:55, a Hacker News front-page report said Anthropic's internal research model Claude found in under half an hour that the NIST P-192, P-224, P-256, P-384 and P-521 curve seeds came from an lrand48 random number generator initialized with a Unix timestamp. A follow-up at 03:03 the same day added that a ten-person Anthropic team including John Wood and Nicholas Carlini cracked how the NIST elliptic curve seeds were generated on October 15, 2026, and claimed the bounty. The two reports cover Claude's discovery of the seed source and the team's crack date and bounty claim.
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Coverage
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- Hacker News front pageThe NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed
Anthropic 的 John Wood、Nicholas Carlini 等十人团队于 2026 年 10 月 15 日破解 NIST 椭圆曲线种子生成方式，领取了悬赏。
- Hacker News front pagePickClaude traces the seeds of the ECDSA standard curves
Anthropic's internal research model Claude found in under half an hour that the seeds for NIST's P-192, P-224, P-256, P-384 and P-521 curves came from an lrand48 random number generator initialized with a Unix timestamp.
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