Anthropics' Claude cracks a 25-year-old NSA cryptography mystery in under 30 minutes

Anthropic's Claude solved a 25-year-old cryptography puzzle in under 30 minutes, determining that the unexplained seeds behind NIST's standard curves for digital signatures were generated by "lrand48," a simple C random number generator. The seeds had been supplied by the NSA without explanation, fueling long-standing suspicion of built-in backdoors; the finding makes deliberate backdoors far less likely.

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. 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 https://the-decoder.com/anthropics-claude-cracks-a-25-year-old-nsa-cryptography-mystery-in-under-30-minutes/ appeared first on The Decoder https://the-decoder.com .