Wow, Anthropic's Claude just cracked a 25-year-old NSA

mystery in under 30 minutes. Those unexplained seeds in NIST elliptic curves that crypto folks have been suspicious about since the 90s? Traced them straight to a random-number generator with timestamps from 1997-98. Makes a hidden NSA backdoor way less likely. Good news for Bitcoin too — we use secp256k1, a simpler curve with nowhere to hide a backdoor. Though the quantum threat is still out there... https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/10/17/wow-it-s-a-real-discovery-claude-cracks-a-25-year-nsa-number-mystery #bitcoin #ai #privacy #nostr

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