Anthropics' Claude cracks a 25-year-old NSA cryptography mystery in under 30 minutes
Anthropic's AI model Claude has solved a 25-year-old cryptography puzzle.
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Key points
- The mysterious seeds behind NIST's standard curves for digital signatures were provided by the NSA without explanation, raising long-standing suspicion about built-in backdoors.
- Claude figured out in under 30 minutes that the seeds came from "lrand48," a simple C random number generator, making deliberate backdoors far less likely.
- The article Anthropics' Claude cracks a 25-year-old NSA cryptography mystery in under 30 minutes appeared first on The Decoder.
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- [1]Anthropics' Claude cracks a 25-year-old NSA cryptography mystery in under 30 minutesThe Decoder · Oct 17, 02:42 PM
Anthropic's AI model Claude has solved a 25-year-old cryptography puzzle.
The mysterious seeds behind NIST's standard curves for digital signatures were provided by the NSA without explanation, raising long-standing suspicion about built-in backdoors.
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