Claude identifies how NSA-provided ECDSA curve “seeds” were generated, offering clues to a mystery nearly 25 years old
Anthropic’s Claude reportedly identified the origin of an NSA-provided elliptic-curve “seed” in less than 30 minutes. The key point is that it uncovered the provenance of a set of parameters rather than breaking the cryptography. Here, we examine how AI’s ability to narrow down hypotheses based on a bias helped—and what the result means.
