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Anthropic Research Links NIST ECDSA Seeds to 1990s RNG

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team reports that an internal Claude model traced NIST ECDSA curve seeds to a 1990s pseudorandom number generator, challenging long-standing NSA backdoor suspicions.

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Timeline · 2 reports

  1. 2026-10-16 20:25 · Techmeme
    Anthropic says Claude traced NIST's ECDSA curve seeds to a pseudorandom number generator, challenging decades-old suspicions of an NSA backdoor in the algorithm (Anthropic)
  2. 2026-10-16 19:07 · Unite.AI
    Anthropic Says Claude Traced NIST ECDSA Curve Seeds to a 1990S RNG

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