2026-10-16 21:00:59 UTC
npub17p…q6s02 on Nostr: Wow. nostr:nevent1qqsr7pcg6vlgrx43qx4uhnq5uragh085nu8eqpl5rgcu4shvpr84c6qha6ql8
Wow.
For 25 years people speculated the NSA hid a backdoor in the NIST curve seeds.
Turns out the P-256 seed was candidate #1842 from a random number generator started at 01:52:34 UTC on August 16, 1997.
Claude figured it out in under half an hour. The scariest thing AI has done to ECDSA so far is make it look less suspicious.
Published at
2026-10-16 21:00:59 UTCEvent JSON
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